Russian Soldiers Took Their City, Then Their Homes

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Evan Hill
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The Visual Investigations team interviewed seven residents of the Pokrovsky apartment complex in the town of Hostomel, outside Kyiv, which Russian forces occupied on March 4. This is what they experienced: https://nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/europe/russian-soldiers-video-kyiv-invasion.html…

By @brenna__smith & @MashaFroliak

nytimes.com
Russian Soldiers Took Their City, Then Their Homes
As Russian forces pushed toward Kyiv, they stormed an apartment complex in a nearby suburb and held residents hostage. Some of it was caught on camera.
7:33 AM · Mar 20, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/europe/russian-soldiers-video-kyiv-invasion.html

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https://archive.ph/Pbz6G



KYIV, Ukraine — For days, Roman Naumenko and his neighbors at the Pokrovsky apartment complex outside Kyiv had been watching from a few short miles away as Russian forces tried to take over a nearby airport.

“I saw helicopters that were firing, coming one after the other,” he said. “It was a huge shock. I couldn’t believe it was real.”

Residents would stand outside their buildings filming the destruction with their cellphones.

Each day, Russian forces drew closer and closer to the apartment complex. On March 3, one of the buildings was directly hit by a missile. More than 150 families were still in the 14-building residential complex at the time, a building manager told The New York Times.

And then, later that same day, troops were literally at Mr. Naumenko’s doorstep.
“We saw the Russian infantry on the security camera of our building,” he said. “From that moment, the Russians stayed.”

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Those fucking russian pigs are there terrorizing people ,putrid needs to
Die yesterday.


And russian soldiers taking unwilling Ukrainians to work camps to be slaves.

Fuck you putrid you need to die right now! Hell the whole russian leadership of yes men enabiling the putrid psychopath need to die too.

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