Occupier kills 12-year-old girl near Mariupol: body found 30km from home

The body of a 12-year-old girl who went missing the day before has been found near temporarily occupied Mariupol. According to preliminary information, the child was killed by a Russian soldier.

This was reported by the Mariupol City Council.

on 30 June, Iryna Gubareva went to meet her friend in the village of Mangush, Mariupol district, and did not return. The girl was found dead almost 30 km away from her home in the village of Respublika.

According to one of the versions, the girl was hit by a Russian military officer in a car. He put the body on the car and drove it to a field where she was found. There has been no official information from the occupants yet," the statement said.

The city council added that this is not an isolated case of people disappearing in the occupation.

Earlier Sotsportal wrote that occupants in Mariupol started to test teenagers for "loyalty to Ukraine". The Russians are stopping children at checkpoints, checking their phones, passports, and demanding that they report "unreliable comrades".