During a visit to The Telegraph, a resident returned to his bombed-out home to see what he could get back. He told Mr Mikulich that there was a grenade that had not exploded in the garage of his neighbor’s house. Mr Mikulich recovered it and deactivated it. “If it helped make their home safer for them to return to, I had to help,” he said. Through a common fire in cooking outside an apartment building, Ina Bohun said how the Russians had looted people’s houses and shot them when they went to fetch water. “I spoke to a Russian soldier, I asked him why he came here to kill civilians,” he said. When the Russian replied that he would be imprisoned if he did not follow the orders, the 53-year-old told him: “It is better to go to prison than to kill innocent civilians.” The soldier had complained of his innocence, he said – but turned and left without saying a word when asked about the bodies of civilians on the ground. There were so many corpses on the road that many had to be collected and transported to a mass grave in a church. Standing at the grave, a 44-year-old Ukrainian territorial defense fighter, who gave his name as Ruslan, said: “There are no words for that. They say they came here to save us. Is this the Russian peace they are talking about?”
