Talk:Civilian convoy attacked between Kupiansk and Svatove

Video

 * The scene of a shooting civilian convoy between Svatovo and Kupyansk Ukraine war footage - SuperDoberDev, October 2, 2022

Ukrainian accusations

 * https://news.yahoo.com/sbu-head-describes-russian-troops-150500248.html
 * https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/1-october-20-people-were-killed-as-result-of-shelling-at
 * https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1576189432063221760
 * @Suspilne_news - Ten kids were killed in the attack in the #Kharkiv region, the Security Service of Ukraine informed. At least six cars came under gunfire and were shot by a #Russian sabotage group at the end of September.
 * Russian ‘sabotage and reconnaissance group’ execute children at ‘point blank’ and blow up a ‘civilian convoy’ killing at least 20 - London Loves Business, October 1, 2022
 * HORRORS OF WAR Twenty killed ‘including children’ after civilian convoy is hit by Russian shelling in ‘cruel’ attack - The Sun, October 1, 2022
 * ''"A brutal attack on civilians was carried out by a subversive and intelligence group of the occupiers - they shot six old cars at close range with small arms and one Gazelle truck," he said.
 * More than 20 civilians, including 10 children, killed in Russian convoy shelling, says regional authority - CNN, October 1, 2022
 * CNN could not independently verify the allegations.

Date
(Unconfirmed)

September 25 according to @Suspilne_news

Location
Just outside Kurylivka heading east. Zoom Earth



The apparent location based on finding a body of water close to the tracks, is on the line just outside the outskirts of Kupiansk. With the convoy heading away to the east and south east. We can say that it was attacked just as it was leaving Ukrainian frontlines. --Diagonal (talk) 10:49, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I now think that the victims were fleeing from Eastern Kubiansk in late september before the Russian garrison on the east of the Oskol river was abandoned September 28.--Diagonal (talk) 13:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

It had already been geolocated here. Shown within current (Oct 4) Ukrainian lines.



Discussion
The attack seems to have taken place just as the convoy had left the far outskirts of Kubiansk, at the approx limit of Ukrop control. There do not appear to be signs of explosions from artillery, rockets or airstrikes. Is seems that the victims were shot by automatic fire and some vehicles burned, including a truck where several burnt corpses are seen. The video footage was probably taken a few days later, judging by the amount of flies around the bodies. One victim is seen having exited his vehicle, presumably shot whilst trying to escape. As with the strike at the Zaporozhzhia checkpoint the vehicles are packed with heavy travel bags.

The Ukrainian line about about a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group shooting the convoy up, kids and all, begs the question of how the Ukrainians knew that is what happened and why they subsequently felt safe to film at the scene. --Diagonal (talk) 10:37, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Eastern Kupiansk, days prior

 * Eastern part of Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, has been liberated – military - Euro Maidan Press, September 16, 2022
 * The Ukrainian Kraken Regiment has published a video in which its soldier says that his unit has liberated the eastern part of Kupiansk today. The eastern part of the city has been separated from the rest of Kupiansk by the Oskil river...Also, a graphic video filmed in the eastern part of Kupiansk is circulating on social media which shows a gunned-down Russian vehicle with dead bodies of Russian soldiers lying nearby.


 * KRAKEN liberated a settlement in Kharkiv region (video) - Trending News Buzzer, September 27, 2022


 * The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported about liberation from Russian occupiers urban-type settlement Kupyansk-Uzlovaya in the Kharkiv region. This is stated in a post in Telegram channel GUR. “Today, September 27, 2022, another city, Kupyansk-Uzlovoi, was liberated by the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense KRAKEN. Finally, we can verify this event,” the report says.

Wikipedia had it that all of Kubiansk had fallen to Ukraine on Sept 16, but this seems incorrect. According to @imatronink - Sept 30, 2022 The Russians garrison east of the Oskol was holding up until Sept 28.
 * ''Nor have the subsequent “filtration” purges of “Russian collaborators” in each of these towns and villages been reported in the completely one-sided western media accounts. Instead, western audiences were once again treated to evidence-free atrocity tales of barbaric Russian troops engaging in wanton rapes, murders, plunder, torture, indiscriminate massacres, and mass graves of innocent civilians...
 * The Russians established their primary line of defense on the eastern bank of the Oskol River. Every day for the past two weeks, Ukrainian reports claimed that the AFU had taken or were about to take Kupyansk, which sits astride the river. But it was never true until two days ago, when the Russian forces in the eastern part of the city finally ceded it to the Ukrainians – but not before having inflicted a massacre entirely disproportionate to their own losses, and notwithstanding having continually faced attacking forces many times their own number.

Punitive operations, Kharkiv region
From Texas Bentley's Telegram, Septemeber 13

From Oleg Tsarev, a true Patriot and Human Being. He has been right all along, and he IS right, and HAS THE RIGHT to be angry and ashamed at this giant Russian military fuckup in Kharkov. READ -

Subscribers ask me not to escalate. And I'm blowing up again. Why am I bringing up this particular topic? Because once again we are abandoning and deceiving people who trusted Russia. They abandoned and deceived some, leaving three regions near Kyiv. Now the same thing happened near Kharkov. And if the most decisive actions are not taken at the front, then after the Kharkiv region there will be Kherson and Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

A real punitive operation has been launched on the territory of the Kharkov region. The Ukrainians approached the identification of people who supported Russia very systematically and as harshly as possible: the Kraken group, the police and the SBU were brought into the territory left by the allied forces. A large-scale search has been launched for people who collaborated with the CAA and who trusted Russia. It must be understood that our divisions and administrations left the region so hastily that documents remained on the ground, including lists of employees of some CAAs, lists of enterprises that have already come under the jurisdiction of Russian legislation, lists of state employees who have already come to work under the new government.

They can't leave. The territory is closed, and there is a filtration. Telegram channels ( https://t.me/kolaborantslobo/74 ) have been launched in different municipalities, they are being written about today ( https://t.me/opsb31/1757 ), where information about our supporters is collected.

I receive reports that there are thousands of detainees, many are shot on the spot. They paint the letter “Z” on the houses of our people so as not to forget to deal with them later.