{"id":8159,"date":"2026-07-22T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:56:22","slug":"donbass-civilians-recount-being-hunted-by-ukrainian-drones-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/donbass-civilians-recount-being-hunted-by-ukrainian-drones-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Donbass civilians recount being hunted by Ukrainian drones (VIDEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kiev\u2019s forces would strike residents that came out of their shelters to fetch water or attempt to evacuate, witnesses have said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces systematically hunted the Russian-speaking civilians of the Donbass town of Konstantinovka, killing families peeking out of their shelters for water or to attempt to evacuate, officials heard at a session of an international tribunal in Moscow on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The town, located on the southernmost tip of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, was briefly under the control of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic forces in 2014 before being recaptured by Ukraine. It was liberated by Russian troops in early June.<\/p>\n<p>At a hearing of the International Public Tribunal on Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis in Moscow on Wednesday, witnesses and survivors from the town said that Ukrainian troops hunted them, their relatives, and their neighbors with drones.<\/p>\n<p>One witness recounted soldiers setting a house on fire, watching to see how locals would react via a reconnaissance UAV and attacking them with kamikaze drones when they attempted to take belongings out of the burning building. Another witness said his son was killed by a Ukrainian missile strike.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5ce3a685f54007db1c73eb.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/643231-fsb-drone-unit-video\/\">Russian FSB unit hunts down Ukrainian drone operators (VIDEO)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All 26 eyewitness accounts from Konstantinovka match in their descriptions of Ukrainian soldiers\u2019 methods, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement for the tribunal. Kiev has created an entire industry for killing civilians in Donbass, with its own logistics and <em>\u201csupport from the West,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova, speaking at the event, stressed that Ukraine\u2019s Western sponsors are attempting to whitewash its war crimes. <em>\u201cSuch information attacks will continue,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a record of the crimes is of paramount importance precisely because of prior Western attempts to rewrite history, she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full RT report below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev\u2019s forces would strike residents that came out of their shelters to fetch water or attempt to evacuate, witnesses have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8162,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}