A resident of the village of Dmitrovka, Lilya Filyushina, said that she and her husband had been going to visit their relatives in the town of Snezhnoye. Their car, as well as the car that was following them, came under fire outside the village of Rassypnoye (Peresyp).
According to Lilya, they spotted a burning car before their car was shot at. Later, it was identified as a Renault Logan, which Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist Andrei Stenin had been driving on his way from Dmitrovka to Snezhnoye on an editorial assignment.
“There were three men standing at a distance of about 30 meters from us… They were all in blue, blue tanks,” Lilya Filyushina described the attackers, assuming that they were the ones who earlier had fired at Stenin’s car and then burned it.
Over the course of several days, they shot at every passing vehicle on this section of the road.
“They shot at point-blank range. They didn’t care if they were civilians,” Oleg Kharichkov, head of the Gornyatsky town administration, told RIA Novosti.
Most of these vehicles were owned by civilians, and the names of all the people who died in these execution-style attacks are not yet known.
Stenin went missing in early August 2014 during an editorial assignment outside the town of Snezhnoye in the Donetsk region, where the Ukrainian military were carrying out a special operation against the self-defense forces. On September 3, Rossiya Segodnya Director General Dmitry Kiselev said that the Investigative Committee received information that the journalist was killed by Ukrainian gunfire aimed at a motor convoy.
Andrei Stenin was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery on September 5, 2014. President Putin signed an executive order to award Stenin the Order of Courage for his heroic conduct during the performance of professional duties.
