Traumatised Ukrainians have described how terrified children were forced to sleep next to decaying dead bodies in a tiny room in a village seized by Russian troops.
Mykola Klymchuk, 60, has spoken of the horrors he witnessed after being forced to stay in the school basement in war-torn Chernihiv.
Around 130 people spent four weeks sheltering from the shellings north-west of Kyiv.