there was shooting over there and heavy shelling. among the dead, her neighbors, brothers egor and oleg yavon. outside the family home, we meet their mother olga. for days she thought her sons were in hiding until a neighbor called her with the devastating news. the agony and the grief are still very raw. they were very good boys, she says. how i want to see them again. do you have any idea why the russians would kill your sons? who knows, there was a bridge that was blown up and somebody shot at a russian drone, she says. the russians were searching the village and rounded them up on the street, six boys. i don t know anything else.
this is a school. in several classrooms there are signs that some of the russian soldiers felt ashamed of their actions. a message on a chalk board. it says forgive us, we didn t want this war. but forgiveness will be hard to come by here. the local cemetery, she takes us to the graves of six men who authorities say were executed by russian forces on the day they arrived. it s so hard to get over this, she says. they murdered them. she says the russians held on to the bodies for nine days before dumping them at the end of the village with instructions to bury them quickly. we dug very fast so they wouldn t shoot us, she says. but there was shooting over there and heavy shelling. among the dead, her neighbors, brothers egor and oleg.
brothers egor and oleg yavon. outside the family home, we meet their mother olga. for days she thought her sons were in hiding until a neighbor called her with the devastating news. the agony and the grief are still very raw. they were very good boys, she says. how i want to see them again. do you have any idea why the russians would kill your sons? who those. there was a bridge that was blown up and somebody shot at a russian drone, she says. the russians were searching the village and rounded them up on the street, six boys. i don t know anything else. a few streets away, catarina