A Russian lieutenant was killed by his comrades for helping Ukrainian civilians, based on a report within the impartial Russian outlet Verstka.
The Russian officer, Ivan Levankov, was executed by his personal unit on February 24, for serving to to cover refugees on the primary day of the invasion — and his killing was lined up and spun as professional -Russian propaganda, the outlet stated.
As Russian forces approached Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv, Levankov’s unit encountered Karolina Perlifon, a 29-year-old Ukrainian returning house to the suburbs from town, Verstka reported.
In an Instagram submit the subsequent day, Perlifon stated she and her mom have been driving within the automobile after they encountered a Russian roadblock.
“They began firing at our automobile,” Perlifon wrote. “We become a lifeless finish and jumped out.”
Perlifon stated two Russian troopers approached the automobile and informed them to cover behind some close by concrete blocks. The Ukrainian and her mom huddled there for 15-20 minutes earlier than the Russians opened fireplace, she stated.
“[My] mother was wounded within the arm – I heard her scream in ache,” Perlifon stated. She stated Levankov — one of many troopers who’d guided her to security — threw her to the bottom and shouted to the others, “Don't shoot! We’re [friendlies]!”
Perlifon stated Levankov was instantly shot lifeless and collapsed on high of her.
A second barrage of fireplace injured the second soldier and mortally wounded Perlifon’s mom.
Perlifon stated she stayed hidden till the troopers moved on, at which level she and the wounded Russian soldier escaped.
That soldier, Valery Vasilyev, was handled at a Ukrainian hospital and in the end interrogated by Ukrainian intelligence.
Vasilyev informed the Ukrainians that his unit’s political officer, bored with Ukrainian civilians arguing with the roadblock, had informed the unit to fireplace on any approaching non-combatants.
When the unit seen that Vasilyev and Levankov have been serving to to cover Perlifon, they turned their weapons on their countrymen
“The Lieutenant Colonel seen that we have been rescuing civilians with the [Levankov],” Vasilyev stated, “and he gave the order to shoot at us.”
Russian media, nevertheless, informed a unique story. Referring to Levankov as an “unknown soldier,” Russian state media stated he was a hero — who tried to guard Ukrainian civilians from their very own army’s shelling, bolstering the Russian narrative that the invasion was in reality a humanitarian mission.
“This soldier was with us,” Perlifon informed Verstka, “and he was shot by his personal individuals.
“Subsequently, after all, it's simpler for them to bury it, to bury it – and let nobody find out about it and even bear in mind it,” she added. “What about telling the reality? They gained’t say it in actual life.”
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