Kids help captive by Russian forces reportedly starved as villagers' food stocks and livestock were devoured.
Russian soldiers occupied villages of Chernihiv Oblast, reportedly locking up nearly 400 people, including infants, in a basement.
The imprisoned families were reportedly fed rations while eating the villagers’ meat, cheese, pigs, and even dogs were consumed by Russian soldiers.
Villagers were banned from using phones and threatened with violence and beatings if they stepped out of line.
One family from the Yahidne village were held with 377 others in a school basement for nearly a month as the parents fed children their megre food rations, reports Ukraine's Euromaiden Press.
The village of Yahidne is located on a highway 10 kilometers south of Chernihiv. It has gained notoriety as a torture site.
One man described his experience to the Euromaiden Press, saying: “From the first day they came, I stayed in the basement."
On the torture and violence towards residents, he added: "It's disgusting. I don’t want to remember.
"My son served earlier [in the Ukrainian Army], and occupying forces found his uniform. They beat us. It’s good that at least one decent person was there, and we remained alive.”
“They [Russians] stole money from almost everyone. They even tore out the floor looking for things. What could they possibly want to find there?"
Military expert Professor Michael Clarke told Sky News: “The Russians are condemning the Ukrainians to a pretty miserable existence in the winter.”
The West is scrambling to supply more air defence systems to Ukraine with Germany and the US promising weapons within hours of the Lviv attack.
Streets in Kyiv were largely deserted as air-raid sirens blared at the start of rush hour today, and thousands took shelter in underground bunkers.
Kyiv resident Viktoriya Moshkivski, 35, and her family were among hundreds waiting for the all-clear in the Zoloti Vorota station, near a park bombed on Monday. She said: “Putin thinks if he scares the population, he can ask for concessions, but he is not scaring us. He is p***ing us off.”
In Zaporizhzhia, missiles have struck apartment blocks overnight at least three times in the past week, killing civilians as they slept.
A missile also hit Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, injuring three people and seriously damaging critical infrastructure.
Ukraine’s Deputy Interior Minister Yevheniy Yenin said: “They’ve hit many [targets] yesterday and they hit the same and new ones today.” He said hundreds of settlements around Kyiv, Lviv and elsewhere were without power.
But as many as 20 Russian cruise missiles and 13 explosive drones were blown out of the sky. Iranian-made Shahed drones have been sent from Russia to Belarus, which is forming a joint military brigade with Russia, but its 50,000 troops are badly trained and equipped.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would fight on. He said: “We will make the battlefield more painful for the enemy.”
