“Today, when trying to leave the city of Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor of the M23 highway in the direction of Novoazovsk, Ukrainian militants from the Azov nationalist battalion shot down a column of civilians,” the People’s Militia said.

As stated in the republic, this case once again proves that the Ukrainian army "purposefully violates the norms of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Population in Time of War."

“Committed war crimes have no statute of limitations,” they recalled.