Ukrainian villagers count the dead after weeks of being confined in a school basement
ABC News
The names of the dead are scrawled on the peeling wall of a school basement where residents say more than 300 people were trapped for weeks by Russian occupiers in Yahidne, a village north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Halyna Tolochina (pictured above), a member of the village council, struggled to compose herself as she went through the list, scribbled in black on the plaster of a green door, in the gloomy warren where she said she and hundreds of others were confined.
To the left of the door were scrawled the seven names of people killed by Russian soldiers. To the right were the 10 names of people who died because of the harsh conditions in the basement, she said.
"This old man died first," Tolochina said, pointing at the name of Muzyka D., for Dmytro Muzyka, whose death was recorded on March 9. "He died in the big room, in this one."
