Bodies of mutilated children among horrors the Russians left behind
"Deep in the forest outside Kyiv, where the mushroom-pickers used to roam and rich city folk built their palatial dachas, Maria Dabizhe, 80, sat sifting through discarded Russian ration packs.
The enemy soldiers had arrived a few days into the war. “They came to my house. I asked them what they were doing there,” she said, as artillery boomed in the distance. “They told me, ‘We’re just trying to do our job’.”
At night, she saw their fires burning. When they brought her some food, she took it. Then, when the soldiers started to withdraw a few days ago, fighting the Ukrainians all the way, the true horror of what they had done became clear."
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