![]() ![]() Their bodies were stored in the boiler room for days before being buried in the village cemetery, Yahidne, April 17, 2022. Ten older people died during this period. Russian forces held over 350 villagers in a schoolhouse basement for 28 days. ![]() “I could hear the bullet casings falling on the ground, too, and thought that was it for me.”īoiler room next to the Yahidne school. “They put a rifle to my head, loaded it and I heard three shots,” said one man who had been blindfolded. Human Rights Watch documented seven cases of torture in which Russian soldiers beat detainees, used electric shocks, or carried out mock executions to coerce them to provide information. In Dymer, Russian forces held several dozen people, the men blindfolded and handcuffed with zip-ties, for several weeks in a 40 square-meter room in the town’s window manufacturing plant, with little food and water, and buckets for toilets. “Almost all the children had high fevers, spasms from coughing, and would throw up.” Another said some people developed bedsores from constant sitting. “After a week everyone was coughing violently,” said someone formerly held at the school. There was little air or room to lie down, and people had to use buckets for toilets. In Yahidne, Russian forces held over 350 villagers, including at least 70 children, 5 of them infants, in a schoolhouse basement for 28 days, severely limiting their ability to leave even briefly. On March 31, the day after Russian forces withdrew, Anastasia Andriivna found her son’s body in a barn about 100 meters from her house after recognizing his sneakers sticking out the barn door.Ĭivilians described being held by Russian forces for days or weeks in dirty and suffocating conditions at sites such as a schoolhouse basement, a room in a window manufacturing plant, and a pit in a boiler room, with little or no food, inadequate water, and without access to toilets. In 1 of the 22 newly documented killings, in the Kyiv region, Anastasia Andriivna said that she was at home on March 19 when soldiers detained her son, Ihor Savran, 45, after they found his old military coat. Empty containers for surface-to-air missiles left behind by Russian forces in Novyi Bykiv, April 16, 2022.
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