Russians robbed people, and whoever dared to speak about it was shot.
The village of Visokopylla in the Kherson region survived half a year of occupation – there, locals say, several dozen were killed and missing. Even after five months of free will, they cannot return to a normal life here, it says TSN.
In the former hospital, which was turned into the headquarters of the occupiers, it is now not even possible to stand, let alone examine people. “The dirt is not just dirt, but disgusting. There is probably nothing like what they left behind in the toilets. It was one of the x-ray rooms, on the wall you can see a burnt dental apparatus, which was the last of the new apparatus. This is the case with every cabinet. What they couldn’t take, they just crushed,” says the director of the Visokopil hospital, Nataliya Kornienko.
Snipers were sitting on the fifth floor, and Russian doctors had set up a hospital in the basement. Now, part of the floors will have to be demolished, so that the locals would have a place to be treated, another room was allocated for the polyclinic. It is cramped, battered, but still whole. Up to 40 patients come here every day.
After the liberation of Visokopill, it was still under fire for a month and a half. The Russians finished what they did not have time to destroy. The current premises of the polyclinic had almost no whole windows, the roof was broken, there were holes everywhere from enemy shells. The neighboring Kryvorizky district helped. “We provided heat to these buildings and there is light in them to spend the winter. People can come and get these very necessary medical services,” says OVA.
Mrs. Natalya came to the hospital, because after what she experienced in the occupation, the pressure rises. She remembers how the Russians almost killed her husband and destroyed her house. “They drove in a tank alone. He just came out of the house to the shed, and then the whole house collapsed, we were left homeless, we have nothing,” the woman says.
Yulia also survived the occupation in Visokopyla with her three children, husband and parents. Everyone huddled in a neighbor’s basement, afraid to run away due to constant shelling and threats from the occupiers. “He had this phrase: “No matter how small, no matter how old, shooting in the city. He took everything – both the equipment and the children, even the toys,” he says about one of the raids of the Russian occupier.
Yulia’s husband tells how he hid five people killed by the Russians. Now he is helping to exhume their and other bodies so that the police can record the crimes of the Russian Federation. “They dug up the whole family. Those who robbed their safe took it from them, they went and complained to their commander, and then came in the evening and shot them, just in the head. Many people are still missing, no one knows where they are,” says Serhiy.
Children in Visokopil play on broken yards. Parents patch holes in battered houses and are happy that Russian tanks are no longer driving through their native village.
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