One evening, Valentina Lohvynchuk says a drunk Russian soldier descended into the basement, demanding a young Ukrainian woman go with him. Fearing the soldier had intended to rape the woman, the villagers formed a human shield around her.
, told TODAY Parents that she traveled to Yahidne with her husband and 7-year-old son to stay with her mother, assuming it would be"a much safer place for us to stay, to kind of hide away from the dangers of war."
"My husband kept one cell phone, and as soon as we got to the cellar he called his mother and told her to delete him from all the chats he was a member of and post on his Facebook page that his phone was in the hands of the Russians," Antonia said."He did not want Russians to get his information." Two days later, the soldiers returned, aiming their guns at the remaining family members and ordering them to leave the cellar and go to the village school's basement.
On March 9, a Russian soldier asked a woman in the basement to come with him — he wanted her to identify two dead bodies found in a nearby cellar. When the woman returned, she told the villagers not to worry — the bodies were not local. But a very real chill crept down Antonia's spine. The town's courageous mine-sniffing dog, who is tasked with finding explosives left behind by Russian forces.After the village was liberated, Antonia was able to communicate with family members back home in Chernihiv. She was told two dead bodies were delivered to a morgue in Chernihiv. Her husband's cousin had identified one of the bodies as that of her husband. He sent her a picture of her husband's body.
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