Germany's Habeck and Ukraine’s Zelenskyy tour Chernihiv region
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, leave after meeting witnesses of alleged war crimes. The village of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region gained notoriety after the Russian invasion last year.
In early March, Russian troops captured the village and forced the remaining 300 or so residents to hold out in the basement of the local school,
according to the Associated Press. More than a dozen other villagers are alleged to have been murdered by the Russian occupiers.
Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, front, l), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, inspect the reconstruction of a destroyed bridge in northern Ukraine. Behind them walks Vyacheslav Chaus, governor of Chernihiv Oblast.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, arrives for a meeting with witnesses of alleged war crimes northeast of Kiev.
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School furniture and toys are seen in a school basement northeast of Kiev where people were held hostage.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, walks through the basement of a school where people were held hostage during a meeting with witnesses of alleged war crimes northeast of Kiev.
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The names of deceased people can be seen on the wall of a school basement northeast of Kiev, where people were held hostage. The village of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region gained sad notoriety after the Russian invasion last year.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, encounters witnesses of alleged war crimes held hostage in a school basement northeast of Kiev.
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A photograph taken on April 3, 2023 shows children drawings in the basement of a school where villagers were kept for almost a month by Russian troops in the village of Yahidne, north of Kyiv, a year after the liberation of the settlement, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves the basement of a school, in the village of Yahidne, Chernihiv region, where all the residents were jailed during the Russian occupation, as he makes a visit to mark the first anniversary of the village liberation, on April 3, 2023 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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