The village Termakhivka which lies on the west of the Chornobyl exclusion zone suffered destruction because of the shelling at the very beginning of the war. The residents talked about how they lived through the occupation that lasted for a month.
"I guess, tanks were rolling on 24 February. "On 26 February that's what they did to us…" – the village resident Liudmyla Oleksandrivna [middle name – tr.] recalls.
The consequences of the destruction can be seen in the video: houses destroyed, crushed cars. There are fresh graves in the middle of the village.
The woman remembers how her neighbor was killed. She says that he was lying, covered, and already dead, while his house and barn were burning.
Brothers Anatoliy and Volodymyr tell how their mother got injured. She died afterward. Ambulances couldn't make it to the village because of the constant hostilities. Their father, 71 y.o. Petro survived.
Termakhakhivka is a small village where everyone knows each other. Around 400 people lived here, now the locals know where everyone is buried. Russian occupiers didn't allow burying the people at the cemetery, so the village residents did that just in the yards.
The "Ukrainian witness" project showed previously the evacuation of people from the places of active hostilities in the Kyiv region.