Ukraine war: 'Russian soldiers killed my family while they fled' (baby & 6yo)

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This could be classified as a war crime. Russian military killed Oleg Fedko's entire family - his parents, his wife, his 6-year-old daughter Sofia and his newly born son Ivan, relatives say.
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Ukraine war: 'Russian soldiers killed my family while they fled'
The Fedko family was trying to flee fighting when Russian troops allegedly opened fire on their car.
11:13 AM · Mar 4, 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60578293

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A family trying to flee Russian attacks was deliberately targeted by Russian soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Ukraine, relatives say. Five people were killed. This article contains details some readers may find upsetting.

Denis, Oleg's brother, was monitoring their moves by phone from Cherkasy, in central Ukraine. At 17:13, he called his mother. "I was trying to convince my mom not to go to Nova Kakhovka, not to stay in Vesele," he said. "I told them: 'Go to Odesa, I have a flat there for you'."

At that moment, he told me, he heard his mother scream: "Oh my God, it's a child, how can you do that". His sister-in-law, he said, was also screaming.

"Then I heard the sound of shooting," he said. "The car stopped and I heard the opened door beeping. I heard the baby cry. He cried, cried, cried. Then I heard [more] gunshots."
Denis was in shock. What had happened? What could he do?

His aunt, who was in the first car and also called Irina, was frantically trying to call her sister, Denis's mother. She was not answering. She tried others in the car. No-one was picking up the phone. Irina was in panic. They decided to return and check.

"Back at the checkpoint," she said, "we approached a soldier and asked about the car". The soldier, Irina told me, pointed at the ditch and said "the driver didn't obey orders and nearly ran over an officer".

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