The woman was in her 40s. She was taken out of her home, say neighbours, and held in the bedroom of a house nearby whose occupants had evacuated when the war began. The well-decorated room, with ornate wallpaper and a bed with
“Maybe if he had gone to fight somewhere else, he would have returned here in one piece,” she says, struggling to speak through her tears. “When my husband told the Russians, ‘Take me instead,’ they pointed a machine gun at him and
Surgeon Victor Borisovich said six people died before they had a chance to operate. Another two died after surgery – including a young child. Victor says many were life-threatening injuries, which he lists as “amputations, torn limbs, torn feet, stomach wounds and
Down in the basement of the main building, are dormitory style rooms which have been completely ransacked. The floor is littered with rugs, mattresses, clothes, shoes and other personal belongings of the Ukrainian national guard who were held there. Officials at Chernobyl
Mr Mook said he saw well over 1,000 people at the station just before the attack happened, and the regional prosecutor’s office said nearly 4,000 people were there at the time, mainly women and children. More than 80 people were wounded, officials
Now the Russians have pulled out of this area, it is slowly being reconnected to the rest of the country. While we were there, the Ukrainian army fixed a temporary bridge over a river on the road to the capital, next to
The town of Borodyanka may have faced some the worst attacks since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Police in the town, which is about 60km (40 miles) north-west of Kyiv, say there could be hundreds of people buried under the rubble
We asked a forensic pathologist for their opinion on whether a body would be expected to be “stiffened” after four days. One who has worked in places including Kosovo and Rwanda on war crimes investigations, who did not want to be named,
The UN Secretary General has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of civilians in Ukraine after Russia was accused of war crimes. As Ukrainian forces have re-entered areas close to the capital Kyiv after the Russians retreated, they have reported
Young conscripts ran away, begging, local people said, not to be turned over to Ukrainian territorial defence. A man of around 70 who called himself uncle Hrysha, said: “I felt sorry for them. They were so young, 18 to 20, with their