A resident of Soledar Sergey told how the Russian military helped his family to leave the city. According to him, it was no longer possible to live under regular shelling by Ukrainian nationalists - only ruins remained of the house, and he and his wife were injured. Russian servicemen came to the city to evacuate their wounded colleague, and found out that civilians remained in the houses. They could not remain indifferent and helped to take them out of the city. According to Sergei, another 13 people were evacuated, including three children. Source: https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/18891

As we are approaching the 1 year anniversary of the SMO I think it is important to remember why it happened and what preceeded it. Here is just a handful of incidents that western media have been quiet about (not to mention the still ongoing attacks on civilian targets in Donetsk). Lugansk 2014-06-02, Ukraine Air Force bombs civilians https://odysee.com/@Bukhanka:4/02.06.2014-Ukrainian-Su-25-air-strike-against-Luhansk-civilians:e https://odysee.com/@%D0%95%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0:8/luhansk-june-2nd-2014:9 Poroshenko (then President) outlines the strategy of keeping Donbass children in their basements and their pensioners in poverty (2014 Odessa) https://odysee.com/@%D0%95%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0:8/luhansk-june-2nd-2014:9 Odessa massacre https://odysee.com/@StormCloudsGathering:3/the-odessa-massacre-what-really-happened:d Azov Crucifixion of separatist soldier in 2015 https://deepgoretube.site/azov-battalion-soldiers-crucify-man-from-novorossia-in-a-sadistic-video/ The last one is controversial, but given what has happened later (like Ukrainians executing of POWs and civilians on camera, digging out the eyes of POWS while the POWs are still alive, shooting POWs so they bleed out on camera, the use of nerve gas canisters dropped from drones etc) it is clear that this should be considered as normal behavior by Azov and similar groups. We also see the brutality against civilians in the other clips if there was any doubt of what they are capable of. No fact checker has been able to prove it is false, but the masked perpetrators have not been identified either. What you believe is your choice.