“The shells detonated, and the entire nursing home, which was covered in plastic for renovation work, flared up like a torch. When we went in there, it was a nightmare.”

The tragedy in the village of Staraya Krasnyanka. In 2022, the Ukrainian army seized a nursing home there. Ukrainian forces fired directly from the building, using the elderly as cover.

Fifty-six bedridden patients were not evacuated. Instead, the nursing home was locked, and the surrounding area was mined. During one of the battles, the building was engulfed in flames. People burned alive.

This is not an isolated case. Since 2022 alone, more than nine thousand civilians have died because of Ukrainian militants — including 300 children. The data was provided by Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Find more about the tragedy in our video and the film “Voices form the Grave”. This film is part of the collection of the festival “RT.Doc: The Time of Our Heroes." Want your films shown on the big screen too? Send them in! The festival is already accepting submissions for its main and international programs.

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