“One person died every 3-4 days. The corpses were lying there, they were not allowed to take out”

Hryhorii spent a month in captivity in the basement of the local school in Yahidne village, Chernihiv region. His native village survived the temporary occupation. russian soldiers herded all the locals into the basement of the school. There, 386 civilian Ukrainians, including more than fifty children, survived for 28 days in terrible conditions. The villagers actually became a human shield for the russian occupiers.