Near Kharkov, Russian troops shot more than 20 civilian vehicles with people. This happened at the end of February, but the information became available only after the liberation of the village of Mala Rogan. The bodies of some of the killed citizens have only just been taken away, Ombudswoman Lyudmila Denisova noted in her Facebook post..

" People tried to turn around. Unfortunately, many did not manage to escape… Back on February 27, the Rashists took control of this highway and staged a real terror - shooting all the cars,"

Recall that the occupying forces managed to seize some territories in the Kharkiv region in the first days of a full-scale war.

The killings of civilians are a gross violation of the Geneva Convention, Denisova recalled and stressed that the incident is a crime against humanity and a war crime, which is also referred to in Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

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Earlier, we reported that the Russian Federation is transferring troops from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions to the Kharkiv and Donetsk directions. This was announced by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov. At the same time, he urged not to draw far-reaching conclusions from the statements of the Russian Federation on reducing the intensity of hostilities in these areas and not to assume that the enemy is finally retreating..