Ukraine village scarred by aftermath of occupation
The day after Anton Ischenko celebrated his 23rd birthday, he was taken by the Russians, led away at gunpoint from his home in the village of Andriivka, west of Kyiv. His family found his body a month later, once the Russian troops were driven out. He was so badly mutilated that they had to identify him by his clothes. As Russian forces retreat to eastern Ukraine, horrors are being uncovered in the villages which they left. About 1,000 people lived in Andriivka, some 60km away from the capital. At least 40 of them were killed. “He was a very nice boy, very clever – he recited poetry,” recalls Anton’s grandmother, Tetiana, sitting outside the family house. Suddenly, her exhausted face crumples.(BBC)…[+]