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Russian butchers knocked on door to ‘liberate us’ then executed my husband in cold blood – I wished they’d killed me too
RUSSIAN troops allegedly executed a Ukrainian woman's husband in front of her, after knocking on her door and claiming they were there as liberators.
The distraught wife from Bucha claimed Putin's soldiers gave her three minutes to get out of the house following the killing, meaning she was forced to leave her husband's dead body in the street.
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Iryna Abramov, 48, told Ukraine's Ministry of Culture that she was in her house in the town on the outskirts of Kyiv with her husband Oleg and her elderly father when the Russian soldiers arrived.
Bucha, recently reclaimed by Ukrainian troops, was allegedly the scene of war crimes after at least 300 Ukrainian civilians were found dead in the town.
Iryna said Russian forces stormed her home on March 5 and dragged her husband, 40, into the street.
According to a translation of the interview posted on social media, the Russian troops first told Iryna: "We are the liberators. We have come to liberate you."
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However, the tone of the soldiers quickly changed, as she and her father told the in a separate interview.
Volodymyr, 72, said that the soldiers opened fire at their house and dragged Oleg out onto the pavement.
They hurled a grenade through the front door, triggering a deafening explosion that saw the house burst into flames.
Volodymyr grabbed a small fire extinguisher and shouted "where is Oleg?" to his daughter as he tried to put out the flames.
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One of the Russian soldiers replied: "Oleg will not help you anymore."
"They didn't ask anything or say anything, they just killed him," Iryna said. "They only told him to take off his shirt, kneel down, and they shot him."
Afterwards, she said, the soldiers told her and her father that they had three minutes to leave the house.
They were forced to leave Oleg's body in the street, his blood staining the road outside their house.
Iryna said the body lay on the street for a month while they sheltered nearby before Ukrainian forces collected it and took it away.
"I wish they had killed me too," she said.
Volodymyr said he doesn't know where his son-in-law's body is.
He compared their home town to "an apocalypse - dead bodies everywhere, the streets full of smoke".
It comes as...
- Ukrainian officials have warned the horrors in the town of Borodyanka will be 'worse than Bucha'
- President Zelensky has compared Putin's savage troops to ISIS monsters
- Video captured the shocking moment Russian army vehicles 'fired on a cyclist' in Bucha
- Russia shamelessly claims BRITAIN 'staged' Putin's genocide in the town
- Moscow will face 'maximum sanctions' following war crimes, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has claimed
Ukrainian forces who entered Bucha at the weekend said they were faced with horror scenes.
They were forced to swerve to avoid dead bodies left in the street, while a huge trench filled with corpses was discovered in a churchyard.
Russia has been accused of "genocide" by Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko, who shared a video from Bucha in the aftermath of the Russians leaving.
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky was visibly upset as he visited the town on Monday, branding the actions of Putin's soldiers "war crimes".
Among the shocking scenes uncovered were Russian "torture chambers" where the bodies of Ukrainian civilians were found.
They only told him to take off his shirt, kneel down, and they shot him
Iryna Abramov
At least five had been shot in the back of the head, execution-style, and left by the Russians.
In the basement of a dormitory in a children's camp, heavily mutilated corpses were discovered, the site of another alleged Russian massacre.
One of the accused ringleaders of the deaths in Bucha is Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov.
Dubbed the "butcher of Bucha", he is the commander of the 64th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade.
InformNapalm, a Ukrainian volunteer initiative that monitors the activities of the Russian military and special services, discovered he is a seasoned veteran and commander of unit 51460.
Omurbekov, whose unit is based in a town outside Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, was blessed by an Orthodox priest in November.
Before his deployment to Ukraine to inflict atrocities on innocents, the Bishop of Khabarovsk led a service for the warmonger.
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The Butcher is now at the centre of a probe into the rape, pillage and murder of hundreds of Ukrainians.
International law states a military commander is responsible for any war crimes committed by his troops.
Volunteers group Tretya Sila said: "In Bucha, there was a military unit 51460 from the village of Knyaze-Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk region.
"Soon all these murderers, rapists and looters will be known by name."
Troops who carried out the killings in Bucha are preparing to be sent back to Ukraine, according to warnings from military officials.
Members of Omurbekov withdrew from Bucha last week and arrived in Mazyr, Belarus, on Monday, Ukraine's ministry of defence said.
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A report by Ukraine's Defence ministry claimed that Russian commanders are refusing to rotate their brigades, which means the blood-thirsty troops are already on the way to Belgorod in western Russia for redeployment.
It claimed troops were being sent to the "hottest spots" like Kharkiv, in the hope they will be slaughtered by Ukrainian fighters before they can testify before a war crime tribunal.
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