Russian General Gurulov has confessed to killing of civilians in Donbas in 2014: "God will forgive me if necessary...". VIDEO
Andrey Gurulev, a State Duma deputy and Russian Army general who frequently appears on Russian federal television channels, has openly admitted that in 2014, Russian soldiers killed civilians in Donbas on his orders. He spoke of military operations in one of the villages, where people were forced to hide in a church, which the Russians shelled with tanks.
"Twelve years ago, I happened to pop into a church in a neighbouring area. I went up to the priest. I said, ‘Father, how are you?’ Well, they were living in poverty. We were bombed here, shot at there; a woman and a child died over there, the fifth, the tenth, here and there. I said, ‘Listen, I did this.’ He looked at me with such eyes. I said, ‘I couldn’t do it any other way. I had to save my own people. We tried to get in from the hospital, from the regional one, but it didn’t work. We tried to get in from the north as well. We had to fight like that and finish off the enemy to the end. I’m not asking you for the people there to forgive me, or anything like that. I just want you to tell people the truth in your sermon. God will forgive me, if necessary...", said Gurulov.