loading . . . Ukrainians who fled occupied territories describe torture, mines, and loss Ukrainians currently living in temporarily occupied territories can return to government-controlled areas of Ukraine through the only humanitarian corridor in Volyn region, on the border with Belarus. Many have described the difficulties they face while trying to leave occupied areas, reports Current Time .
The only checkpoint operating as a humanitarian corridor between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia is called Domanovo-Mokrany. Sergey, a volunteer with the organization Helping to Leave, assists Ukrainians trying to get out. According to him, there is a modular transit camp here for people who have crossed the border, and everyone receives assistance.
“It operates only for entry into Ukraine, one way. And only Ukrainian citizens can return to our country through this checkpoint. Every day, between 10 and 20 people cross through it at this time of year. In the summer, that number reached 100 people,” said Margarita Vershinina, spokesperson for the Volyn border guard unit.
Viktor and Nadiya from Hola Prystan in the Kherson region shared their emotions: “You cannot imagine where we have been. No one can tell it like we can. It is hell there. There are mines everywhere… (the occupiers) rip off fingers, nails. These are not fairy tales, this is real. They beat people with electric shocks, they club them. That is how they abused our people,” Viktor said.
Oksana, a resident of the Kherson region, confirmed his account, saying that men were “taken away, interrogated, and beaten.”
For his part, volunteer Sergey shared a heartbreaking story about helping evacuate a little boy and his grandmother after the child’s parents were killed in a Russian drone strike.
“A grandmother is traveling with her grandson. His mother and father are no longer alive — an enemy drone. On the second day, they came to take the grandson away because under the law she no longer qualifies for guardianship. And she is traveling with that grandson. And I ask him, ‘Misha, are you going to Kyiv?’ He says, ‘Yes, to mom and dad.’ I understand that the boy is eight or 10 years old, he is playing. He understands everything, but he does not understand that his parents are gone,” he said. https://www.uawire.org/ukrainians-who-fled-occupied-territories-describe-torture-mines-and-loss
