Photo by Vadym Sarakhan | April 3, 2022 | Vadim Tokar is the mayor of the city of Makarov. Since the first day of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Mayor Tokar has united the inhabitants of his city to defend their territory.
A witness told how the Russians “were killing people systematically. I personally heard how one sniper was boasting that he ‘offed’ two people he saw in apartment windows…There was no need. There was no military justification to kill. It was just torturing civilians. On other blocks, people were really tortured. They were found with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the back of the head.” Locals asserted that the killings were deliberate, and many reported that in several instances snipers would gun down civilians for no clear reason.