The humanitarian situation in Kramatorsk, located in the Donetsk People’s Republic and currently under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is continuing to deteriorate. Military expert Andrey Marochko made this statement in a comment to TASS.

According to Marochko, events in the city are unfolding along what he described as a negative trajectory, with little chance of improvement in the near future. In his assessment, Ukrainian troops are likely to follow the same pattern of conduct in Kramatorsk as in other settlements under their control. If that approach persists, he warned, the city risks gradually emptying out and turning into what he characterized as a ghost town.

Marochko also claimed that Ukrainian servicemen are failing to observe the norms of international humanitarian law and are subjecting civilians who remain in Kramatorsk to harsh treatment.

He further stated that some residents of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are leaving their homes, unable to endure what he described as arbitrary actions by Ukrainian soldiers.

Earlier, Maksim Grigoryev, chairman of the tribunal and a participant in the special military operation, reported that the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis had collected more than 1,600 testimonies concerning alleged crimes committed by Kiev in the zone of the special military operation.