On 20 December, Russian military forces forcibly removed about 50 Ukrainians from the village of Hrabovske in Sumy Oblast to the territory of Russia. This information was confirmed in a comment to Suspilne by the village head, Larysa Kremezna.
According to her, just over fifty people remained in the village. They had previously officially refused evacuation, but in the evening, Russian troops began forcibly taking them away.
“There were about fifty people left there. They were taken to the territory of the Russian Federation. There were no children among them,” Kremezna said.
Only part of the residents were saved
On the same day, residents of the neighboring villages of Ryasne and Lisne were evacuated by Red Cross volunteers and the police special unit known as the “White Angels.”
However, according to available information, only about a quarter of the residents who were in danger were rescued. Some people, despite constant shelling and warnings, chose to remain in their homes.
Who exactly carried out the removal is unknown, but the incident is alarming
It has not yet been established which specific Russian military units operated in Hrabovske.
At the same time, earlier, the 105th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated militants from the elite Russian special unit “Senezh,” who had been conducting raids in Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.
According to a Ukrainian intelligence source, Senezh follows a brutal “blood ritual” — each graduate must “bring back a kill” from a raid in Ukraine, as per Suspilne. If they fail to kill a soldier, they murder a civilian instead.
