Before the large-scale destruction in Izium, the population before the war was 50,000, Ukrainian officials estimated around 70-80% of the residential buildings were destroyed, and the population currently stands at close to 20,000.
Izium is a city that lies on the Donets River in Kharkiv Oblast, based in Eastern Ukraine. Russian disinformation is still causing mistrust and bitterness among residents of Ukraine’s ‘second Mariupol’.
Friday 16th September 2022.
447 citizens were killed, and there was a mass burial site found in the city of Izium, this was after the Russian occupation. This city based in the Kharkiv region was occupied since early April.
After 5 months, it was liberated in the Ukrainian counter-offensive: Russian forces left the city on September 10th and on September 14th a flag was raised over the city once again. Quite soon after, many of the horrors that happened were revealed in the region, this was when a mass burial site was found, with more than 440 bodies found.
As the exhumation started two days later, the true number of Ukrainians found remained unclear. There was a grave found with 17 people buried inside it, head of the Investigative department Serhiy Bolvinov stated -“A lot of bodies have not been identified yet. So the reasons for death will be established during the investigations”.
On 23rd September, it was complete. 447 bodies were recovered from the various graves and they ranged from 215 women, 194 men, 5 children and 22 military personnel. Besides these bodies that were found, there were also 11 the sex could not be determined therefore they were left unidentified. 99% of the bodies found there was clear evidence of violent death, some people were wrongfully shot and some died from airstrikes. Izium suffered from the largest number of missile attacks - over 500 missiles had targeted this city and left it in complete ruins, some buildings have nothing left at all.
At least 30 of these bodies that were found have various signs of torture, these ranged from; Broken arms, tied hands, a rope around the neck, amputated genitalia., killed families, and killed children. In both Izium and Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region, there were some horrifying chambers where people were tortured and found. Teenagers and foreign students were tortured by these Russian war criminals.
After the release of over 388 settlements in the province, the world has to know the truth about Russia’s war crimes committed there during the occupation.
These monstrosities are nothing but genocide. Russia should be held liable for everything it committed as a terrorist state.
In Izium Ukraine a deep dark pit with nothing but dates carved into a brick wall was found, a damp underground jail, that stank of urine and rotting food. A clinic, a police station and a kindergarten.
This was one among the 10 torture sites that were located by the Associated Press, these were throughout the Ukrainian city. Torture within Izium was arbitrary, and widespread it was a routine that both civilians and soldiers were used to during the six months that the city was controlled by Russians.
15 survivors got to tell their stories as they survived the Russian torture in the Kharkiv region, as well as two families whose loved ones sadly disappeared into the Russian's hands. Two of these men were taken and abused on repeat. One of these was an unconscious Ukrainian soldier, he was displayed to his wife in the hopes it would force her to provide information that they wanted, this information she simply did not have and couldn't provide. There were also eight men confirmed to be killed after being tortured whilst, in Russian custody, the survivors and families stated that all but one were civilians.
Torture in any form during an armed conflict is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, whether of prisoners of war or civilians.
Many horrifying stories link to the horrors that took place in Izium Mosyakyn was one of the many men to have to experience this first-hand, he had enlisted in the war after it had begun. Russians threw him into a pit with water, handcuffed him and hung him up by restraints. In an interview with AP, he recalled what happened during this time
“They beat me with sticks. They hit me with their hands, they kicked me, they put out cigarettes on me, they pressed matches on me,”
They carried on the torture by telling him to dance, and when he did not they shot bullets at his feet. This is torture that you would never wish on anyone. After three days of torture inflicted on him they dropped him off at the nearest hospital, the last thing that they said to him was; "Tell them you had an accident" thus hiding everything that had happened.
However, this was not the case, Mosyakyn was captured again and had to live through the horror all just a few days after. This time he ended up in a different holding site School No 2, which was subject to routine beatings along with other terrified Ukrainians. The school also served as a base and field hospital for Russian soldiers who were injured, and at least two Ukrainian civilians held there had died. The soldiers however freed him again, but this was only to recapture him yet again, this time he was hauled into a crowded garage of a medical clinic. Over more than a dozen other Ukrainian were jailed alongside him these were a mixture of soldiers and civilians.
Women were held in an area closest to the soldiers' headquarters. Their screams seemed to have echoed through the building at night, according to Mosyakyn Ukrainian intelligence officials said that they were raped regularly. This is yet another war crime that should not be committed.
Ivan Shabelnyk had left home with his friend on 23rd March, this was to collect pine cones for kindling, they were never seen again.
Another man that was with them told Shabelnyk’s family about what had happened and the torture that they had endured together, first in the basement of a nearby house and then it was in School No 2 after he had told them he had left town. Their bodies were found in mid-August, these were in the last few days of the occupation, and a man who was looking for firewood had found them. He followed the enduring smell of death to a shallow grave that lay in the forest.
Shabelnyk’s hands were shot, his ribs broken, and his face unrecognizable. They identified him by the jacket he wore, from the local grain factory where he worked. His sister, Olha Zaparozhchenko, showed journalists his grave.
“They tortured civilians at will, like bullies, I have only one word: genocide.”
This is a word many people would use to describe this whole invasion.
Maksim Maksimov was a survivor of the torture that had taken place, he went back to the spot where he was tortured with electric shocks. As he stood in the gloom, the terror came back to him.
In the basement of Izium's police station, he was taken from his cell by Russian soldiers. He was sat in an office chair and they attached a zig-zag crocodile clip to his finger, it was connected by cable to an old fashioned Soviet military field telephone. Then the torture for him began.
A soldier cranked the handle, turning it faster and faster, this sent pulsating pain through Maksimov’s body.
“I collapsed. They pulled me upright. There was a hood on my head. I couldn’t see anything. My legs went numb. I was unable to hear in my left ear, Then they did it again. I passed out. I came around 40 minutes later back in my cell.”
It was like a nightmare that when he came to, nothing had happened, the only feeling that stuck was the pain he was feeling. The Russian army occupied the police station in April. According to Maksimov, a 50-year-old publisher, the soldiers rounded up anyone suspected of having pro-Ukrainian views.
Residents are unable to say specifically how many people had vanished during Russia's 5-month occupation of the city, but by the mass graves and the pine forest on the outskirts of the town, close to a Russian checkpoint. Beneath orange-barked trees, Ukrainian forensic experts were carrying out a gruesome process of exhumation and truth-telling.
Izium wasn’t only known for the mass burial sites that they had discovered but there was also a lot of mass descruction and various war crimes that had happened.
Russian forces used a large air-delivered munition in an unexpected attack on an apartment building on March 9th, 2022, this was in Izium, this attack killed at least 44 civilians and violated many laws of rules, laws that should not be broken as innocent civilians should not be killed. The five-story building is located in the central district, Ukrainian forces did have control over this building until late March. It is located close to the Donets River and a footbridge. Russian forces took full control of the city by the end of the month, they occupied it and the area for nearly six months.
Two emergency service workers said that the fighting in the area prevented them from starting the recovery efforts until late March. They spent about a month digging various bodies out of the rubble, at first they did this with their bare hands then they slowly dug with equipment. One said that they recovered 51 bodies, 44 of them identifiable and that they did not discover any small arms or light weapons there. The emergency workers and three witnesses to the attack who were there for some, or all of the exhumations, said they did not see any bodies in military uniforms.
The Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights, Dmytro Lubinets, stated that 54 people were killed. Human Rights Watch obtained three lists of those who died or remain missing, and a list of personal possessions found at the site, including identity documents.
Iziums residents endured shelling and six months of Russian occupation, before Ukrainian forces liberated the town.
Recently in March 2023, there was the appearance of a video, a viral one, it appears to show a Ukrainian soldier, a captured prisoner of war getting shot lifeless.
It was a cold-blooded shooting which chilled a nation. This man was unarmed and not harmful at all, all he was holding was a cigarette in his hand. He and 4 other men went missing in December 2022, the others are still missing in action.
The viral footage shows the man shouting “Slava Ukraini” which in English is “Glory to Ukraine” and he gets shot continually. It was a brutal and unprovoked kill and the video taken went viral, not only did it hurt Ukrainians to watch, but it also hurt from around the world. The man was harmless and was named Oleksandr ‘Sasha’ Matsiyevsky. This shooting is now a subject of a selection of war crimes
“Killing prisoners of war is a war crime. Those responsible for such crimes will face punishment.”
Matsiyevsky was named a hero, a man who will always be remembered for his bravery.
“Glory to the hero! Glory to the heroes ! Glory to Ukraine!”
The Russian occupiers have shown the world once again that their main ultimate goal in Ukraine is the ruthless extermination of Ukrainians. War retains its laws and these war crimes are worldly wide seen by many people.
Within hours of the video being released, #GloryToUkraine became one of the top trending hashtags on Twitter.
A Ukrainian mother had plans to change her life this year. Russian forces shot her as she cycled home.
Iryna Filkina, 53, lived in the village of Mykhailivka Rubezhivka which was near Bucha and worked in a local building materials store.
Iryna Filkina had big plans for the year. She was turning 53 in April and planned to start focusing on herself after spending the past three decades tirelessly working and raising her two daughters between the towns of Bucha & Irpin, these are in the suburbs of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. She even got a cherry red manicure for Valentine’s Day, drawing “a heart on her finger because she started to love herself,” Someone told CNN.
But her plans were stalled at the end of February when Russia decided to invade Ukraine. Her daughters decided to cross the border into Poland, they were safe, but Filkina stayed back to help people. She decided to cycle home once the car that she wanted to take was full. As she returned home from work on a bicycle Russian Military shot her. It happened approximately on March 5th, on this day her two daughters and husband were last in touch with her.
There was no network within the village, and alongside this, there was no light or gas. One of her daughters, 26-year-old Olga Shchyruk, said that she begged her mother not to ride her black bike home that day. She asked her to take the train out of the city instead. It was the last conversation they had. Filkina never made it home that day.
The following after the shooting, the girls saw a video, of a woman, who had come under Russian Fire, it was impossible to know if this was Iryna at this time. The daughters hoped, and they prayed their mother managed to survive, however, the 1st of April came and they saw a video of their dead mother, this was spread on social media alongside this a viral picture of a manicure, which went around internet.
“We did not see the face, but we did see the pants in which she went to work. You could also see this manicure, a photo which has spread around the world. I imagined that she was just hidden in a basement - that she saw occupiers and stayed somewhere to wait.”
It would’ve been horrifying to be in this situation, however, people are living in this new reality. Subacheva began to compare photos she took of Filkina with the Reuters photograph.
“This photo of her body and my pictures were taken of her manicure... I realised that this is the same person and I started to cry, we need to realize that behind this picture of her hand stands a great woman. All her life, she gave herself for others -- (she) gave her life to the ambitions of other people”
Ukraine’s first lady said the attack caused “horrible pain,” vowing that “we will never forget and never forgive
On November 23rd, Russia shelled the town of Vilniansk, which is based in the Zaporizhzhia region. One of these rockets that got fired hit the maternity ward, and the entire building in this area partially collapsed on impact.
Horrifyingly at 2 am Maria Kamianetska had just finished feeding her son and had laid him down to go to sleep, a rocket struck the hospital’s maternity ward, they were on the second floor of the maternity ward, as the hospital’s walls came falling the mother and baby became trapped, they were the only patients in the ward that night. The new mother wanted to rescue her baby, and after lunging herself towards his crib she made the shocking discovery that he had been launched from his bed on impact... The rest of it was a bit blurry. For the nine months that she was pregnant, she and her son’s life was constantly at risk. Rescuers pulled the mother out of the rubble with minor damage done to her - the only person that was killed in this impact was 2-day-old Serhii. Since his death there was later payback received on the forces that killed young Serhii, Kyi’s forces wiped the unit out.
Serhii was among the many hundreds of children to die during this war so far, many more wounded, the boy did not live long enough to receive a birth certificate, but his short-lived life remains in his mother’s memories. There was a small funeral that was created, it was very quick, and not well thought out, but the baby needed to rest.
24 dead, including 13 children in a civilian car convoy, were attacked in the Kharkiv region.
Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported the events of the seven cars being destroyed and lives being lost as they entered into the so-called “grey zone”. They were shot at close range and there is no true justification as to why they were killed.
The attack happened between the villages of Kurylivka and Pishchane on September 25th, Kharkiv region, one of the few survivors Olha Tereschchenko was travelling with her husband and son... They were unfortunately killed in the attack. Explains that their home in Kurylivka was destroyed by the shelling three days earlier, because of this she and her husband decided to evacuate. The convoy of cars had set off early in the early hours of 25th September, their car was in front. There was a driver and elderly lady in the front, while she, her husband and their son sat in the back. Everybody in her car was killed except her when the shelling began at around 9 a.m. She sustained burns and was initially stunned by the attack but managed to get out of the car just before it exploded. Olha and the other survivors began running from the scene. She says that those who attacked the convoy wanted to finish them off, this was an act to cover their tracks by killing the witnesses. According to her, five to seven people survived.
Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Regional Governor, points out that the invaders launched these attacks against civilians who were trying to flee the shelling. There can be no justification for such brutality against innocent people.
Among the deaths of the 13 children and adults, there was also a pregnant woman, and two cars were also wrongfully burned down with families inside them, parents and children, they were burnt alive, they died a painful death. Images posted to Telegram by Ukraine’s Office of Prosecutor General showed at least two burned cars with scorched bodies inside. At least another two unmarked civilian vehicles were riddled with bullet holes, with more deceased victims strewn inside.
They were found only on October 1st, Russian troops without hesitation fired at the civilians as they were trying to escape from the shelling, it was at “pointblank range” Several people, however, managed to escape from a death experience and now bearing witness to the tragedy, they are currently in the process of reporting the incident to authorities. The case was opened under Article 438 of the Criminal Code ща Глкфшту — a violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder.
The victims were civilians, who were trying to take humanitarian aid to families living under Russian occupation, or, in many cases, coming to get relatives or friends out, they were just trying to live their lives or try to save others. For this act of kindness, they were killed for it.
46 were killed, and 79 injured, and a Russian missile hit a residential building based in Dnipro, this caused the entire section hit to collapse on impact.
On January 14th, Russia seemed to have launched yet another wrong and brutal attack on civilian infrastructure and the civilians of Ukraine. A missile smashed into an entre unexpected section of a nine story building, which caused dozens of people’s homes and apartments to be destroyed and damaged, and this was caused without provocation.
As of 13:00 on January 17th, the search and rescue operation had been completed. It was found that 46 innocent people were killed, this included 6 children, 79 were injured, 16 of them being children and 39
16 roughly killed, and 64 injured, this was in yet another unprovoked attack on innocent civilians, this time it was a shelling attack in the centre of Kherson, which took place on Christmas Eve.
A time of peace and togetherness with the ones that you love the most. At least 16 were killed, and 64 were wounded due to Russian shelling on Christmas Eve in Kherson Oblast.
Russian forces fired missiles at a market, a shopping centre and a selection of residential buildings in Kherson centre. They attacked the city roughly over 40 times, and the streets turned into horror scenes as there was shattered glass, burned-out cars and bloodied corpses, this was just as the war entered its 11th month. Putin since then claims his readiness for negotiations and further continues to blame the West for refusing to talk. Ukraine has also said it is not interested in resuming peace talks; which seemed to have ended in the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion without a breakthrough – unless Moscow completely withdraws from its territory.
Zelensky took to social media to post the collected photos, these showed cars ablaze and bodies being thrown outside a food store. One man lay there lifeless in a pool of what we can guess as his blood, his right leg, twisted and broken. Another man was sitting slumped in a van, blood covering the street by the looks of when he tried to exit the vehicle before bleeding out to death. President Zelensky accused Russia of:
“killing civilians for the sake of intimidation and pleasure.”
Nothing had been the same since Russian soldiers first marched past their window in the late afternoon of 1 March, and Ksusha’s father began filming their lives for a BBC Eye documentary. His day job had been as a local reporter, now he seemed to have become the reporter of his own life and fate.
An example of a child that is terrfied for what each day brings is a 5-year-old called Ksusha wishes her life was back to normal, but she doesn’t understand what is happening around her, she can only understand little bits and not picture the full information. When she sleeps and her parents can hear guns they cover up the sounds by imitating birds, this calms not only Ksusha down but also puts the parents at ease. She crawls under tables during the day repeating
“I don’t want them to shoot bombs at me. I saw a robot today, it was flying, I did see it... It wanted to kill me.”
No one this age should have to live in a world where they are worried to die whilst being outside. She is one of many children who show bravery throughout this invasion. She is living in a completely Russian-controlled Mariupol, different to the one she may have known months ago. Her father begins to wonder how much she may know and understand,
and what she will seem to remember from this horrid war... Most importantly will this all change her as a person.
Children seem to understand more than we know, they just don’t know how to process the information presented to them, emotionally and mentally. This a heartbreaking action between a father and his daughter, they are ready to flee from Kherson, with his pregnant sister and his wife. In case they don’t make it they write down all the important information that is linked with Ksusha, they put this in her library card this is so she doesn’t suspect anything that is happening. The guardians who might look after her in case anything happens will have all the information that they need, including her allergies, birthday etc. They do end up all escaping and making a new start somewhere else.
This 5-year-old is one of the more lucky ones you had the chance to leave, some of these did not have the chance. She doesn’t know this, she will always have the thoughts and trauma, but will never remember what it is like to be in this, it will act as if it was a bad nightmare that she escaped from.
The doctor calculated that the girl will survive, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to avoid disability. However, he stressed that the child has a bad mental state, she is afraid of various sounds, she is worried.
Milena Uralova lies in a children's hospital in Zaporizhzhia, she has been recovering for nine days after she was shot in the face by a Russian soldier. She can’t speak loudly because she has a bullet wound to her jaw and the base of her tongue, however, she can still count to 10 in English, showing she still has joy and hope. The bullet was lodged in her throat near her coronary artery.
Milena’s mother Elena describes how she fled Mariupol with her two daughters and mother in law after enduring weeks of Russian bombardment. To achieve this they got into someone else's car, they drove through many Russian checkpoints, round about noon they came across a bunch of Russian soldiers, without warning, they opened fire on them with machine guns.
“After that, the driver stopped, and we began to open the doors, leaving with our hands up. Then they started shouting something but we didn’t know, and then we saw it... We saw what happened to my daughter, the youngest. We pulled her out of the car, she was injured.”
Realizing their mistake, the Russian soldiers gave her first aid and sent her to the nearest hospital in the occupied city of Tokmak. Later she was brought to this hospital for life-saving surgery. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Mila was doing gymnastics — flipping and dancing. Now she can barely walk in the bomb shelter of a children’s hospital. But she hopes to continue doing gymnastics after the war.
On a strip of grass in front of the smashed, charred remains of the Jubilee department store there is a pink pushchair lying on its side, smeared with blood
A four year old girl was fatally killed and her mother was in critical condition after a Russian Missile struck the city of Vinnysia.
The little girl was named Liza and she was just enjoying her day out with her mum, they were coming back from speech therapy when she was killed by her pushchair... a foot landed alone next to her in an attack that hurt a city. According to a Facebook post made by a Ukrainian Down Syndrome charity.
“They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The mother not only lost her baby but also lost her life in this brutal attack. Broke a family and killed another 22 people, this includes two more children. Bodies lay on the floor burnt and lifeless, these were people who were just living their everyday lives, some were shopping, and others were just simply enjoying the day.
At least three children under the age of 10 were among those killed in the attack, according to National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko. Only six bodies have been identified, and a reported 39 people are still missing, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
The full scale invasion in Ukraine has been happening for over a year now, many tears have been shed and lives have been lost. There is too much happening, many more stories that are still being written. Even though there is a selection of stories within this book, hundreds of people are still being killed and thousands more injured, homes being destroyed and innocent civilians are loosing their family day by day. These stories need to be noticed, the awareness needs to be spread. My hopes is that this book shares some of the awareness and shows an insight to the horrors that are developing in Ukraine.
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Trapped in a Mariupol hospital: ‘They said anyone who left would be shot./ By The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/10/trapped-in-mariupol-hospital-ukraine-maternity-attack-russia
War Crimes Watch: A Devastating walk through Bucha’s horro./ By AP https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-war-crimes-7791e247ce7087dddf64a2bbdcc5b888
World leaders express horror over alleged massacres near Kyiv./ By The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/world-leaders-express-horror-over-alleged-massacres-near-kyiv/
A Visit to the Crime Scene Russian Troops Left Behind at a Summer Camp in Bucha./ By Time https://time.com/6166681/bucha-massacre-ukraine-dispatch/
Hundreds found in mass burial site after Russians leave Ukraine city./ By New York Times https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/hundreds-found-in-mass-grave-after-russians-leave-ukraine-city/
Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins/ By The Hindu Business Line https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/ukraine-200-bodies-found-in-basement-in-mariupols-ruins/article65459138.ece
‘This Tears my Soul Apart’: A Ukrainian Boy and an Execution./ By PBS FRONTLINE https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/ukraine-war-child-deaths-bucha/
The woman killed by the Russians was identified by her manicure in the photo. Her name was Iryna./ By The Official website of Ukraine https://war.ukraine.ua/crimes/the-woman-killed-by-the-russians-was-identified-by-her-manicure-in-the-photo-her-name-was-iryna-and-her-daughters-still-can-tfind-her-body-for-the-funeral/
Ukraine war: Newborn’s body in Mariupol hospital lies on floor of makeshift morgue meant to store food./ By Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-newborns-body-in-mariupol-hospital-lies-on-floor-of-makeshift-morgue-originally-built-for-food-storage-12567784
Russian shelling, a 6-year-old girl, and hopeless moments in a hospital./ By The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-shelling-a-6-year-old-girl-and-hopeless-moments-in-a-hospital/
Ukraine: Izium Apartment Victims Need Justice/ By Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/22/ukraine-izium-apartment-victims-need-justice
Ukraine invasion: Young mother collapses in boyfriend’s arms after toddler killed in Russian shell attack/ By Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-young-mother-collapses-in-boyfriends-arms-after-toddler-killed-in-russian-shell-attack-12558412
New ‘war crime’ discovered after 200 decomposing Ukrainian bodies found in the basement of a destroyed apartment building in Mariupol./ By Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10850713/War-Ukraine-200-bodies-basement-bombed-Mariupol-apartment.html
Viral photo of 4-year-old girl killed in Ukraine is stark reminder war continues./ By Today https://www.today.com/parents/parents/viral-photo-toddler-killed-ukraine-stark-reminder-war-continues-rcna38395
Ukraine: The children’s camp that became an execution ground./ By BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61442387
Russian rocket kills newborn in repeat attack on small town./ By AP https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-31592595fbd30815954ff5ee3e24e06a
Strike on Ukrainian maternity hospital kills 2-day-old baby./ By The Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/article/world/ukraine-maternity-hospital-8285814/
Russian rocket kills newborn in repeat attack on small town./ By ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/russian-rocket-kills-newborn-repeat-attack-small-town-93886587
Civilian car convoy attacked in Kharkiv Oblast: 24 dead, including a pregnant woman and 13 children./ By Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/1/7369956/
With front lines on 3 sides, Ukraine’s Dnipro sharpens its focus on the war./ By NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089146927/russia-war-ukraine-dnipro
Ukraine war: We secretly filmed our lives in occupied Kherson./ BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63242667
Ukraine war: Four-year-old Liza killed by Russian attack on Vinnytsia./ By BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62181726