Forced into a basement in Ukraine, residents began to die

In one room, those who survived wrote the names of the 18 who didn’t.

“An old man died near me and then his wife died next,” Valentyna Saroyan, a weary survivor, recalled Tuesday as she toured the darkened basement. “Then a man died who was lying there, then a woman sitting next to me. She was a heavy woman, and it was very difficult for her.”…

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“Here’s a chair, and that’s how we were sitting for a month,” Saroyan said, recalling her aching legs.

As people died one by one in the basement, neighbors were allowed from time to time to place the bodies in a mass grave in a nearby cemetery.

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