A Ukrainian millionaire asked the military to bomb his own mansion upon discovering Russian troops had invaded and used the area to house rockets and missiles.
Andrey Stavnitser, the CEO of IT company TransInvestService, gave the Ukrainian army the coordinates of his home so that troops could bomb the property after he saw on one of the mansion’s security cameras that Russian soldiers had converted the space into a military base. About 12 military vehicles were destroyed in the Ukrainian bombing, as well as a BM-21 rocket launcher system that he said may have been used to launch missiles toward Kyiv.
“It was kind of an obvious decision for me. There is not much you can do nowadays to help [the] military, and that was one of the opportunities that I had,” Stavnitser told Good Morning Britain.
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Stavnitser fled the home in early March, shortly after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. However, he left behind security personnel who he said were interrogated by the Russian soldiers before being sent out into the woods without cellphones.
Russian troops had purportedly “undressed” and “interrogated” Stavnitser’s security team and threw the workers out to use the mansion to store stolen laptops and iPads, as well as military equipment, the millionaire said.
The security guards eventually reached a shelter where they were able to contact Stavnitser and tell him Russian troops had invaded his home. When the millionaire began checking his security cameras, he discovered the Russians had destroyed all but one and decided to tell the Ukrainian army to destroy the mansion.
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“If you were to ask me two months ago, what kind of feeling would I have if some, you know, hostile military people were in my house, I would say, ‘Fury and anger,'” he said. “However, this is not what I felt. … I felt disgusted. I felt dirty, you know, looking at some guys walking inside my house.”
More than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since the invasion began, with another 2,818 injured, according to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Most of these casualties were caused by explosive weapons such as rocket launch systems and missile strikes, the agency said.
