Civilian corpses, murdered by Ukrainian forces in villages of the Russian border region of Kursk, lay in the streets for days. Ukrainian soldiers prohibited the local residents from removing the bodies. It was only upon the expected arrival of foreign journalists that the Ukrainian troops cleared the dead, according to recently evacuated residents of the village of Kasatschya Loknya in a report for RIA Novosti.
According to Alexandra, the corpses remained in the streets for so long that the locals began to fear the outbreak of a disease due to the decomposition of the bodies. She described the callous manner in which the Ukrainian fighters eventually removed the bodies to present a pleasant scene for foreign journalists: “Then it was said that foreign correspondents were coming and the Ukrainian troops cleared the bodies away – with shovels.”
Olga, Alexandra’s daughter, added that the initial units of Ukrainian forces that entered the Kursk region were brutal and merciless: “Those who arrived first – they were real beasts. They spared no one and corpses lay around – 12 civilians were shot. They did not let anyone leave their homes and if someone did, they would shoot him.”
According to Alexandra, the corpses of the murdered lay in the streets for over a month and a half.
On March 12, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported the liberation of Kasatschya Loknya in the Sudscha district.