Over 300 villagers near Kyiv trapped in basement for weeks, say residents

Survivors in Yahidne recount writing names of the dead on wall during Russian occupation north of Ukrainian capital

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Residents of a village north of Kyiv have said that more than 300 people were trapped in a school basement for weeks by Russian occupiers, scrawling the names of the dead on a peeling wall.

Halyna Tolochina, a member of the Yahidne village council, struggled to compose herself as she went through the list, scribbled in black on the plaster either side of a green door, in the gloomy warren where she said she and hundreds of others were confined.