but left a trail of stories of ruthless treatment after withdrawing from the north. we re learning more about the horrors that russian forces caused in the northern turn of chernihiv. there, president zelenskyy says that russian occupiers forced civilians in a school and locked them in a basement for weeks. ed lavandera spoke with survivors. z war stopped time here. bombs and artillery scorched vilages. russian occupation ravaged the minds of its people. the story is just emerging, revealing how the russian army held this village hostage for more than 30 days. sofia shows us the underground bunker in her shed where she first hid from the fighting. she says she had food stored here that the russians ate. this is where she slept.
ukraine. russian occupation ravaged the minds of its people. the story of what happened in yahidne is just emerging, revealing how the russian army held this village hostage more than 30 days. s sofia shows us the underground bunker where she first was in hiding, said she had food stores here the russians ate, this is where she slept. sophia says russian soldiers went door to door rounding people up and taking them at gunpoint into the basement of the village school. sophia tells us that when the russian soldiers moved them all into the basement to the school building they were put down there and the soldiers told them they were being put in the basement to die. a woman named natalie took us into the basement where she was trapped.
old. they were banned from leaving for three weeks even to go to the bathroom. when someone asked to go out to get some clothes for the kids, the occupiers demand that had they sing the russian national anthem. that is how the russian soldiers had fun. that s the kind of impunity they felt. ed lavandera went to this village and has more from this absolute horror story. reporter: war stopped time here. bombs and artillery scorched this village in northern ukraine. russian occupation ravaged the minds of its people. the story of what happened here is just emerging, revealing how the russian army held this village hostage for more than 30 days. sophia shows us the underground bunker in her shed where she first hid from the fighting. she said she had food stored here that the russians ate. this is where she slept.