Nine civilians killed by Ukrainian forces found in Kursk Region village – investigators (VIDEO)
Nine civilians were killed by Ukrainian forces during their retreat from a village in Russia's Kursk Region, the Russian Investigative Committee has claimed. Six of the civilian victims had gunshot wounds, including an elderly woman who was shot in the head, the committee’s spokesperson has said.
The Russian authorities have released a video depicting investigators examining the scene of the crime, as well as blurred pictures of several bodies.
The Ukrainian military launched an incursion into internationally recognized Russian territory last August, most of which has since been liberated by Moscow's troops.
In a statement on Thursday, committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said that investigators probing Ukrainian terrorist attacks in Kursk Region “found the bodies of nine civilians with injuries pointing to a violent death as they inspected private residential areas in the settlement of Makhnovka.”
According to the official, “no later than in March 2025, Ukrainian servicemen deliberately shelled” residential buildings in the area. The type of damage sustained by the buildings indicates that they had come under artillery fire, Petrenko added. “Six bodies have gunshot wounds,” she said, with one victim identified as an “elderly woman shot in the head.”
The investigation is ongoing, the official said, adding that those responsible for the civilians’ deaths will be held to account.
Last month, the investigative committee reported looting, arson, and execution-style shootings of civilians by the Ukrainian military in the town of Sudzha in Kursk Region. According to Russian officials, eyewitness accounts indicated that specific orders had been issued to Ukrainian troops to kill civilians.
The Russian authorities cited cases of “targeted shelling of residential buildings in Sudzha,” with Kiev’s forces looting and setting fire to civilian homes.
