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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Children sleep next to dead bodies in Ukrainian village seized by Russian troops

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.

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