Yahidne village residents on basement ordeal

(13 Apr 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yahidne, Chernihiv region, Ukraine - 12 April 2022
1. Exterior of school where Russian forces kept more than 300 people in the basement
2. Door to the basement with sign painted on door reading (Russian): "Attention. Children"
3. Close of the sign
4. Various of a village resident Valentyna Saroyan walking down stairs to the basement
5. Saroyan sitting down at the chair in the basement UPSOUND (Russian): "Here's a chair and that's how we were sitting for a month. Legs were hurting. The health has been ruined."
6. Closed window
7. Chairs in the basement
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Valentyna Saroyan, village resident:
"An old man died near me and then his wife died next. Then a man died who was lying there, then a woman sitting next to me, she was a heavy woman, and it was very difficult for her, she died as well. Another old man looked so healthy, he was doing exercises, but then he was sitting and fell. That was it. I was saved twice when I lost my breath."
9. Chairs in the basement
10. Drawings on the wall
11. Pan from drawings to table and mattress on the floor
12. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Julia Surypak, village resident:
"Then they (Russian troops) said those who wanted to go home should sing the Russian anthem and then they could go where they needed. They didn't go with us. We were walking alone. But they didn't allow us to walk much."
13. Message on wall reading (Russian): "1 April 2022. The last day."
14. Various of a villager walking through cemetery showing the mass grave where dead villagers were buried
15. Various of mass grave
16. Toy on the ground
17. Shell on the ground
18. Various of destroyed Russian vehicle
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Svitlana Baguta, village resident:
"One day he (Russian soldier) came either drunk, or high, he pointed the gun at the throat, put the flask and said 'drink'."
20. Various of destroyed buildings and rubble
21. Shells on the ground
22. Wide of destroyed Russian van
STORYLINE:
Residents of a village in Ukraine's Chernihiv region say more than 300 people were forced to stay in the basement of a school for almost a month by Russian occupiers.
Their ordeal took place in Yahidne village on the outskirts of Chernihiv, 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Kyiv.
Residents say Russian troops forced them into the basement at gunpoint after they took control of the area in the beginning of March.
They said they were made to remain there day and night with rare moments when they were allowed to go outside to the toilet and to cook on open fires.
Valentyna Saroyan, one of those who underwent the ordeal, recalled that at least five people died in basement.
"An old man died near me and then his wife died next. Then a man died who was lying there, then a woman sitting next to me, she was a heavy woman, and it was very difficult for her, she died as well. Another old man looked so healthy, he was doing exercises, but then he was sitting and fell," Saroyan told the Associated Press.
In one of the rooms was written the names of all those who died during the Russian occupation of their village. There were 18 names on the list.
Villagers say they don't know the cause of the deaths.
Russian soldiers allowed them to remove the bodies from time to time in order to bury them in a mass grave at the local cemetery.
Villagers also recounted other distressing experiences.
One of the villagers Julia Surypak said Russians allowed some people to make a short trip to their homes if they sang the Russian anthem.
A message on a wall marks the 1st April as "the last day" of the villagers' detention.
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