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For: The Opinion Updated 07 Apr 2022, 17: 28 pm EDT
After the Russian army left the city of Bucha, the atrocities committed against the villagers were made public, to whom tortured and killed, adding up to more than 300 civilians who lost their lives during the occupation by Russian forces. In Berestyanka and other alternate cities, the situation is just as devastating as it has revealed the cruelty of the war.
The residents of Berestyanka had to endure humiliation that Russian elements did to them when they were not killed, as is the story of Valentina Cheradnienko 65 years old, who lived in his house together with his daughter, his son-in-law and the son-in-law’s son, when one day they were surprised by Russian soldiers.
Valentina Cheradnienko shared with the portal ABC, that his son-in-law Sasha Pistun opened the door of the house and two soldiers were pointing guns at him so he would let them in. The Russians tried to take the two women who were in the house, but Sasha did not allow them.
“I won’t let her go, take me instead. I am Russian. Are you going to shoot me?”, were the words of Sasha Pistun, when one of them shot him point blank, killing him in front of his family . Mrs. Cheradnienko saw when they took the women out to rape them, according to what she said, one of the soldiers was about 17 years old .
Valentina Cheradnienko asked the soldiers to help her bury Sasha Pustin so that she wouldn’t just lie there; The men dug a hole in the backyard of the house and threw it away.
“It was difficult for them to get him out of the house. We couldn’t go to the cemetery because there was shelling everywhere and the rockets were coming ”, he commented to the same media outlet.
Now Valentina Cheradnienko, together with the residents of the city, will look for a way to recover from the Russian intervention , waiting for the war to come to an end, because the Russian occupation devastated entire families.
ABC was able to speak with another woman, Vira Holubenko who returned to Berestyanka, when the Russians withdrew from the city and was a witness to the conditions in which the place was left in which you have lived for years. The apartment that she shared with her husband was bombed by an aerial missile.
“Look at these liberators. What did they free us from? From a good life, a cozy house, a stable family”, said Vira Holubenko, referring to the words of President Vladimir Putin, who noted that he was invading Ukraine to liberate his people.
Mrs. Holubenko revealed that they do not have electricity, water, gas, food, they do not have nothing, only the fear that the occupation of the Russian forces left them. “So, what did they free us from? Let Putin answer that question“, questioned the Ukrainian woman.
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