"Our jewels were taken away. They're nothing but looters."

While their home was seemingly untouched by the heavy shelling that destroyed Borodianka, it was ransacked inside. Clothes and discarded bottles littered the floor. They found their pet bird dead in its cage.

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“Alcohol is everywhere; empty bottles in the hallway, under things,” the 44-year-old said. “They (the Russians) smoked a lot, put out cigarettes on the table. They used the bed linen as their own.”…

CNN watched as Avramenko and his colleague extracted the body of a 44-year-old Ukrainian from a car. He was shot through the heart while driving, with his car crashing into a ditch next to the road.

“Psychologically, it’s difficult,” Avramenko said. “The worst thing is that we’re not finding soldiers, just innocent people.

“They were shot for no reason,” he added.

The volunteers pick up an additional two bodies in the space of an hour. One of them was the charred corpse of a person hit by an artillery round, the other an elderly man who was shot while riding his bicycle.

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