in the 180 hidden like rats inside underground from a building then became the headquarters of Russians during the occupation of Bucha. First the hiding place where they had been holed up for five days, then, when the terrified civilians were discovered by the occupying army, they were held hostage. To tell ilfattoquotidiano.it in a video that it’s a cruel nightmare Dmitry Hvozdytskyi19 years.
For the first time he returns to the place of horror. one basement tight and wet, in poor condition, with reduced Only one bathroom is not working and the fear of an uncertain ending. Dmitry’s story begins where the boy is He slept on the earth for ten days: “We were many, there were men, women, old people, young people like me, children, a couple had a few days to live and then dogs and cats. We had to hug because as you can see the room is not huge and is full of clutter. A temporary bed was made for the newborns on a wooden table with pillows, the others slept as usual. After so many days in here there was no air, we are ten meters underground, people were scared and didn’t want to get out, but we risked dying like the rats below. Without food from the third day, when even the biscuits are ready and at the end too without waterrationed in small doses to please everyone, primarily children and the elderly, collected from a boiler at the central plant, bad, not potable and a mixed color between yellow and green. One toilet was broken“.
The group of civilians had locked themselves in the basement where the utilities are located, sealed off by a bank vault-style armored door and a second at the bottom of the stairs. The Russians unhinged the first one: “We opened the second door – says the 19-year-old – when the Russians had already spotted us. We wouldn’t have lasted long anyway and feared they were going to use it to blow everything up the explosive. We went from pan to fire. The Russians were violent and they kept us there for another five days without providing us with any drinking water or food. They also started checking all documents and especially cell phones to find out who had anything to do with the Ukrainian army or who had pictures or videos of the conflict or anti-Russian propaganda. It went well for me but many others didn’t, including a friend of mine who went upstairs and killed“.
More than 100 hours of further concern about their fate, then on the fifth day the bulk of the hostages were released: “The Russians were tired of us knowing each other down there, so they told us and that’s how we were released – Conclusion Dmitry , fled to Zhitomir and then returned to Bucha just two months later, in May. When they brought us out of the basement, I feared a mass execution, instead they just told us to leave town quickly. In the entrance hall, however, I remember a sea of blood and the bodies piled up by many of my fellow citizens. For a few seconds, the eyes registered this horrible image, an image that will always stay with me.