“The Chairman of the Investigative Committee ... instructed the investigators of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee to initiate criminal cases on these facts, to conduct a thorough and comprehensive investigation of all the circumstances of the incident,” the message on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia says.

Bastrykin also stated the need to record evidence of the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Donbass.

Earlier it became known that as a result of an attack by the Ukrainian military near the village of Pionerskoye in the Donbass, two civilians were killed.

As a result of the emergency, five residential buildings were also destroyed.