Russian man tells grandmother how he shoots children and women in Ukraine

A Russian man told his grandmother over the phone that he was killing civilians in Luhansk direction. The intercept of the Russian's conversation was made public by the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's Main Directorate of Intelligence.

According to the captor, he took part in the shooting of 400 civilians. He stressed that the occupants killed everyone: children, women and men alike.

We came in today and started shooting civilians and everyone, we just fucked everyone up. We killed at least 400 people in the night... If they kill me, I know that I will take so many people with me," he said.

The invader said that he and other soldiers simply went into houses and shot everyone, killing children, women and men.

Locals, non-locals... They just "mopped up" everything. We would go into the houses and just shoot... They just gave us an order: "take Kremenna". We mowed it all down. From night to morning we just 'mowed it down,'" he said.

The grandmother replies, "That's right.

The CID promises that there will be fair retribution for every war crime committed against Ukraine.