"She took a knife in her hand and got out": a woman who survived the shooting of her family by the Russian Armed Forces in Donetsk region, told how it was
The woman told the "Public Dnipro" publication about this. At first, the Russians began to ask Olga and her family where the "enemies", that is, the Ukrainian military, were. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation put their weapons at her husband and told the woman to choose between him and her son. This continued throughout the day. In the evening, the Russian military said they were leaving, but returned a few minutes later and committed a crime: they shot the whole family.
The 37-year-old son and the 61-year-old man died immediately, the woman claims. After the shot, the woman thought that everyone had died. However, later she came to her senses, took a knife in her hands and left the basement. "I wanted to shoot at least one person in the stomach. I wasn't afraid," Olga admitted. The woman said that she came out of the basement and started screaming. But later she realized that she was alone in that part of Zvanivka.
Olga also found her second son, 32-year-old Volodymyr, dead. The man went out to fetch water in the morning and never returned home. A woman found his body in another basement. There, Olga also saw the bodies of her neighbor and her son who had been shot. The woman decided that it was not worth staying in Zvanivka, and set out on the road. For more than 12 hours, she walked through dangerous territory, mined fields. After that, she reached a conditionally safe place, where she received help.
The doctor said that the woman was operated on on October 21, but the treatment will not end there. Further, Olga will have 5 more operations. At the same time, the woman's emotional state remains difficult. On October 23, the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office reported another crime committed by the Russians during the war with Ukraine: the Russian Armed Forces shot 5 civilians in Zvanivka, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region.