Chronicles of the Sanitary Zone: Russian Military Shoot and Kill Their Own Citizens

The creation of the sanitary zone is definitely going according to plan. However, it seems this plan implies that the zone will now be along the border with Ukraine, but only on Russian territory, with all the resulting consequences.

In the Kursk region, drunk Russian soldiers shot at a car with civilians, injuring one person.

Four soldiers were driving around the village of Martynovo in a “Lada” marked with the letter Z and opened fire on another car. Inside were two people—one of them, a 21-year-old passenger, was injured and hospitalized. The soldiers have supposedly been detained, but considering they are likely “heroes of the Special Military Operation,” they will probably face no consequences. Even if they are convicted, they will likely receive minimal sentences and later be pardoned, only to be sent back to the front or to rear units in another area.

In the village of Berezovka, Borisovsky District, Belgorod Region, a tank ran over a car. The driver of the car was killed. Konstantin Lopatkin, killed by Russian soldiers, was a resident of Berezovka.

Witnesses say the tank stopped several dozen meters from the accident site. Local residents report that the tank’s driver-mechanic and other tank crew members were in an inappropriate state and “laughed in people’s faces.” They claimed to be heroically fighting for this country and said nothing would happen to them.

The investigation’s version of this accident is very telling. Law enforcement claims the car driver was at fault and that he died before his car was run over by the tank, supposedly due to a “heart rupture.”

This is not the first tragedy involving Russian soldiers and a tank. On the night of June 1, there was another fatal accident where a tank ran over a car. The tragedy occurred on the road between the village of Krasivo, Borisovsky District, and the village of Golovchino, Graivoronsky District. The driver, Andrey Alekseev, died. The tank crew fled the scene across the fields. Witnesses to the tragedy claim the soldiers were intoxicated and that they drove the tank to a nearby village to get alcohol, damaging curbs in the process.