Russian soldier confessed to murdering civilians in the Kyiv Region

Journalists found soldiers involved in the murders of civilians in the Kyiv Region.

The Russian media “Vazhnye istorii” published the names of Russian soldiers who were involved in the murders of local residents of the Andriyivka village (Makariv district, Kyiv region).

The invaders were identified thanks to the photos.

The Russians stole a smartphone from a local old man, took pictures on it. They left the phone behind after they fled the Kyiv Region.

The device was eventually returned to its owner, and the journalists were able to identify the personalities in those photos.

Photos show soldiers of the Russian 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (51460 military unit): Daniil Frolkin, Dmitry Danilov, Ruslan Glotov and Ivan Shepelenko.

As for stories by local residents, these Russians may be involved in robberies, looting, and even murder.

“Vazhnye Istorii” (“Important Stories”) found the contacts of all the participants of the “photo session” in Andriivka; two of them agreed to talk to journalists: Daniil Frolkin and Dmitry Danilov.

Soldier Frolkin said to journalists that he found out that he was going to war on February 23, at the line-up after the festive dinner. When asked about robbery and looting, Frolkin replied that he and his friends took “just some crap” from local houses: a bottle of wine or beer, a barbecue, food. At the same time, he didn’t deny that the Russian military was engaged in looting in Andriivka. Frolkin, as well as Danilov, said that he didn’t kill any of the residents of Andriivka.

A few hours after their initial conversation, Daniil Frolkin invited the journalist to a video call over messenger and requested that it be recorded.

“I, a soldier of military unit 51460, Guards Corporal, Daniil Andreevich Frolkin, confess to all the crimes, which I committed in Andriivka: the shooting of the civilian population, robbing the civilian population, confiscating their phones, and the fact that our command does not give a damn about our fighters, all the infantry fighting on the front line, on the front line.”

After that, Frolkin demanded to punish the commanders and said that the deputy commander of the brigade, lieutenant-colonel Aleksandr Prokurat, issued an order to shoot local civilians.

Frolkin also confessed to the murder of Ruslan Yaremchuk, a local resident, alleging the civilian could transmit the coordinates of Russian positions to the Ukrainian Army.

The second Russian soldier, Danilov, said that initially, in January 2022, he and his colleagues were sent to Belarus “for training”. According to him, during the training, many “began to guess” that they might be sent to Ukraine. In February, the military was informed about the start of the so-called “special operation.”

“They said that we would go to intimidation for three days. The special operation has begun, Luhansk and Donetsk will be recognized as people’s republics, they will be included in the Russian Federation, and you will leave from there,” the Russian invader said.

He doesn’t want to return to the war, because “there is nothing to do there,” and he is “not happy about the invasion, but not in such a way that he has a negative attitude towards it.”

During and after the occupation, 13 dead bodies with bullet wounds were found in Andriivka, where about 1,500 people lived before the war. According to the stories of the locals, Andryivka residents were shot in the village without a trial or investigation, sometimes without even taking prisoners or interrogating them.