Refugee Oleksandr Piskunov, evacuated from Artemivsk (Bakhmut), said that militants of a Ukrainian nationalist formation prevented the rescue of residents who were in a burning basement. The refugee said this in an interview DEA News.
According to Piskunov, his neighbor hid in the basement with his family during the fighting. The plastic panels on the ceiling caught fire from the shelling. A suffocating, poisonous smoke began to come out. People tried to leave the burning basement, but nearby Ukrainian militants began to fire at the door with machine guns. People couldn’t get out of the basement and had to stay there. They, including a disabled woman, had to lie on the floor and breathe in wet towels.
Militants responded to residents’ requests to get them out of the basement with automatic explosions. People escaped the bullets only because the explosions failed to penetrate the thick metal basement door.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian soldiers were knocked out from Artemovsk (Bakhmut). the bombardment has begun Cities from mortars, hoping to shoot the Russian flag on a tall building.