“The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee instructed the investigators to investigate the circumstances of the shelling of citizens leaving Mariupol,” the report says.

According to investigators, members of the Azov National Battalion shot down a column of civilians while passing the gum corridor, as a result of which two civilians were killed and four more were injured. 

Earlier it became known that the servicemen of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces ensured the safe evacuation of 150 people from Mariupol in the direction of Novoazovsk.