In Bucha,  a Russian occupier shot a father of many children in front of his son - the boy miraculously survived

DIANA KRECHETOVA - TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2022

A Russian occupier ruthlessly killed the father of a large family in front of his 14-year-old son. The man alerted him to the fact that he was unarmed, but that did not stop the Russian soldier.

Another immoral act of the occupiers was reported by Kyiv Children's Hospital Ochmatdit.

The tragedy occurred on March 17, when 47-year-old Ruslan Nechepurenko and his 14-year-old son Yuri went for humanitarian aid and medicine to the centre of occupied Bucha, where the family actually lives.

At that point in time, there had been no gas, electricity or water in the family's house for almost two weeks. "We were riding bicycles when a Russian soldier came out of the house. We stopped, raised our hands, said we had no weapons. But the soldier started shooting into father. He fell.

Then the soldier started shooting at me, two bullets hit my hand. I fell to the ground. The soldier then shot into the hood of the hoodie I was wearing, but the bullet did not hit my head," Yura said.

According to the boy, he laid on the ground for several minutes after the Russian occupier tried to kill him. When the soldier left, Yuri ran to the nearest shelter. It turned out to be a local kindergarten. There, the child received first aid. After that, the boy managed to get home, where he told his mother and two brothers about his father's murder.

"He (the Russian soldier - ed.) asked them (the husband and son - ed.) where they were going. The man replied that they were going for food. They raised their hands and said that they were harmless, that they didn’t have anything illegal on them. Both of them were wearing white armbands.

As the child explained, the father turned back at one point to see how his son was. And at that moment, this brute started shooting at him in front of his son," the wife of the deceased Alla Nechepurenko said, recounting her son's words.

She stressed that the Russian was aiming at the heart and head. He didn't even try to scare her husband with shots to his arms or legs; the aim was to kill him outright.

The woman added that the father of her sons died immediately.

For two days, the Nechepurenko family were not able to collect the body of the deceased man to bury him. When they managed to reach his body, he no longer had a white armband on his arm. It had been removed by the Russian military.

The killer also snatched his phone, wallet and even the house keys. The family buried their father in the backyard.

"My three sons had been left without a father. I understood that I needed to save the children and myself. We were told that there would be a 'green corridor' on March 19, but we had to get to the meeting place on our own.

We walked down the street where my husband was shot. We walked and prayed for our lives every second. We heard explosions nearby; we were stopped by Russian assassins. Every second we were going along we were saying goodbye to life," the wife of the deceased recalls.

Fortunately, the family managed to survive and evacuate to Cherkasy Oblast. However, shortly afterwards they had to come to Kyiv, to Ochmatdit, to record all 14-year-old Yuri’s injuries.

In addition, the boy needs medical care - he received a gunshot wound to the arm, forearm and finger.

Fortunately, nothing threatens his life now.