Over 300 villagers near Kyiv trapped in basement for weeks, say residents

Survivors in Yahidne recount writing names of the dead on wall during Russian occupation north of Ukrainian capital

Residents of a village north of Kyiv have said that more than 300 people were trapped in a school basement for weeks by Russian occupiers, scrawling the names of the dead on a peeling wall.

Halyna Tolochina, a member of the Yahidne village council, struggled to compose herself as she went through the list, scribbled in black on the plaster either side of a green door, in the gloomy warren where she said she and hundreds of others were confined.