"The projectile hit just in the room": the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation killed the last resident of the village in Sumy region (photo)
According to the son of the deceased, his father was the last inhabitant of the village, all others were evacuated. The man learned of the death of a relative when his friends went on Wednesday, January 24, to visit an elderly person. Arriving at the place, they found that the house was destroyed by the direct hit of the projectile. "The projectile hit him directly into the room, there the kitchen was beaten, a barn.
Now I am waiting for my mother and sister to bury my father," said Ruslan, the son of the dead Alexander Nikolaevich. The man said that the deceased Alexander Nikolaevich refused to leave the village even when the remaining residents were evacuated. To ensure his father's normal living conditions, his son brought an elderly person to a generator and batteries. The pensioner had his own farm, which he looked after: a mare, a yard dog and several chickens.
The fatal incident was confirmed by the journalists in the Krasnopil settlement council. Her secretary Irina Yuhta said that the Russian occupiers were most likely fired at the husband's house last weekend or Monday. The village of Steppo is located near the origins of the Sita River, below the current at a distance of 4 km is the village of Ripyakhivka (Belgorod region). The village is located on the border with Russia. In 2001, according to the census, 65 people lived in it.
The village was affected by the genocide of the Ukrainian people held by the USSR government in 1932-1933. We will remind, earlier we wrote that the Russian DRG shot brother and sister in Sumy region. A 54-year-old man (driver) and a 68-year-old woman (passenger) were traveling under the fire, who were traveling in the car on the road between the two villages of the Khotyn community of Sumy district. They turned out to be a brother and a sister, both died.