As many as 22 Ukrainians were held prisoner in a boiler room in Novyi Bykiv, a village 60 miles east of Kyiv. Seven of them were kept in a crawl space the size of a refrigerator turned on its side; at least four were murdered.
, I was led to a cellar. For a month, Russian soldiers had taken up residence in the town’s Soviet-era house of culture, laying mattresses on the floors and positioning anti-aircraft missiles outside. During that time, they used the boiler room in the basement of an outbuilding to hold as many as twenty-two prisoners. Within the boiler room, there was a deeper chamber, a stone-walled crawl space the size of a refrigerator turned on its side.
The Russian soldiers accused Victoria of passing information about Russian military movements to Ukrainian intelligence. Two days later, Mykola saw her being marched at gunpoint in front of the house, but he didn’t dare say anything. “She’d be shot, and so would I.” A house with a destroyed Russian tank in Novyi Bykiv, a town in Ukraine, liberated from the Russian Army.
I stopped in Velyka Dymerka, where people in line for humanitarian aid—the town had been occupied and blockaded for a month, with virtually no access to food or medical supplies—told me that in the first days of occupation, a Russian armored personnel carrier would drive down the streets, shooting at whoever stood nearby. “My friend stepped out of his house, then, he was dead on the ground,” Ivan Chapaev, who witnessed the killing, said. His friend’s body lay in the street for two weeks.
Gerasimenko and I walked around the side of the house and stood near a mound of dirt marked by an iron cross. “My son, my son, my son,” she wailed. In the days after her son’s killing, she approached Russian soldiers on the streets of Hrebelki, asking repeatedly, “Why did you kill my son?” One of them told her, “Don’t cry, grandma.” Another turned and walked away. A third tried to offer her some money. She refused.
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