office shows us where town residents were brought for interrogation and torture in a dark basement. as many as 30 people to a cell. prisoner, he says, were seated in this chair and subjected to electric shocks. vadim spent a few days there. he recalls his interrogators beat him first, then asked questions. they beat me on my back, my head, then shoved me on the floor and kicked me, he says. then they gave me a cigarette and started the interrogation. they asked me if i was pro ukrainian. i m ukrainian. of course i m pro ukrainian. he was released, but his son vladimir was taken by the russians. he s still missing. vitali draws water from the neighborhood well. he withdrawals when russian soldiers asked if he and his wife had any nazis at home. this is a normal village, he chuckles in the retelling. we re farmers and workers.
[speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english]. father vadim estimates he s already personally saved around 1000 people [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] we are going through these villages with you and saw people who haven t done anything wrong, leaving because they are under attack, in a very difficult state. 21. [speaking non-english] it s clearly weighing on
[speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] . father vadim estimates he s already personally saved around 1000 people [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] we are going through these villages with you and saw people who haven t done anything wrong, leaving because they are under attack, in a very difficult state. 21. 20. [speaking non-english] it s clearly weighing on
the two events. the kremlin promised its special operation in ukraine would make russia safer. but in belgorod, there s little sign of safer. explosion this was the city early on sunday. russia accused ukraine of a missile attack. ukrainian officials deny it. but at least four civilians were killed in an explosion. and many buildings were damaged. this is not destruction on the scale of ukraine, where thousands of civilians have been killed since russia invaded, but there is anger here. we should have fired a missile right back at kyiv , vadim says. that would have made them think. i asked this lady if this had happened before. what in the city centre? of course not , she says.
of a missile attack. ukrainian officials deny it. but at least four civilians were killed in an explosion. and many buildings were damaged. this is not destruction on the scale of ukraine, where thousands of civilians have been killed since russia invaded, but there is anger here. we should have fired a missile right back at kyiv , vadim says. that would have made them think. i asked knarik if this had happened before. what in the city centre?! of course not , she says. we need to take harsher measures. i ve been wondering why is it that so many people here don tjoin the dots? they don t make the connection between russia invading ukraine and their lives here becoming less safe. i think it s partly because the russian state media does all it can to prevent those dots from being joined in people s minds, but also many russians simply don t want to believe that their country started this, that russia is the aggressor.