While the unrestrained violence around Kyiv has embodied the pointless savagery of Russia's onslaught against civilians, dark and untold stories of their brutality in tiny, distant villages, like Dasha's, in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, are slowly emerging.
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One of the soldiers, who Dasha said was drunk, began asking how many rooms were in the house, and the ages of the children. It was mid-March and 16-year-old Dasha was about six months pregnant. The men let the children enter the kitchen to eat, Dasha said. They were hiding from the Russians, who had fired shots into the air, at cars - and at people.īut when the children resurfaced, they were greeted by two unwanted guests - Russian soldiers.
When Dasha and the other children emerged from their basement and into their newly occupied village it was for food. WARNING: This story contains details that are disturbing
