RT showed video of shelling of a residential building in Mariupol, this is the first confirmed war crime – Andryushchenko

russian TV channel RT has published a video, where the russian military was shown shooting at a residential building in Mariupol. The caption to the story explains that the russian tank “was shooting at the positions of snipers of the Azov National Battalion.”

The video was published on March 19. On June 2, the bodies of murdered locals were found under the rubble of that building.

The appropriate information was confirmed to The Insider by the adviser of the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko:

“I learned from the locals that the corpses of civilians were found under the rubble. There were no soldiers there, it's just a civilian case.”

Immediately after the publication of the RT video, social media users established that the video was shot in the area of ​​Pashkovsky Street and May Day Avenue. It was filmed by the TV channel's stringer Andriy Filatov, one of the cameras was attached to the russian tank that was firing.

On June 3, Andryushchenko wrote that the russian military had begun shifting the rubble and “destroying evidence of its own crimes.”

According to him, on June 2, under the rubble of one of the houses where the tank fired, six bodies of civilians were found: five corpses of men and one of a woman.

According to Andryushchenko, the russian military immediately took them to a mass grave in the village of Vynohradne.