Félix Séguin and his cameraman Yani Massé arrived in Borodyanka on Tuesday following around 30 military checkpoints.
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It is estimated that 200 civilians were massacred in this town located one hour from Kyiv. The buildings have been gutted by the bombings and there too, Ukraine evokes war crimes.
Of the 12,000 inhabitants of the place, there are only 2,000 left, including a sixty-something woman who shows us around her half-destroyed apartment.
“I want to see Russians die so they can see what they did to Ukrainians,” she says.
Anatoly Nikolayanko, owner of a small grocery store shows us what’s left: nothing.
Before the start of the invasion, he considered the Russians as brothers. “Before I was pro-Russian, but now I can’t anymore,” he said. I saw my friends die”, confides the man who promises us that his city will be rebuilt.
A citizen explains to us that the offices were emptied of their computers and hard drives by Russian troops so as not to leave any evidence that might have been filmed by surveillance cameras.
The Borodyanka hospital, which lacked resources for dozens of days while it was under the bombs, is starting to function once more.
Neonatology and surgical interventions and even psychiatric follow-up will be able to resume very soon, confirms the doctor in charge of the health establishment.
The first patients will arrive “in the next few hours”.