‘Putin’s worldview’: Inside a Ukrainian village-turned death camp

A memorial near the entrance to the school basement where most of Yahidne's population spent 27 days in March 2022, help captive by Russia's invading soldiers [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]

Yahidne, Ukraine – Aged between 90 days and 91 years, almost everyone in this northern Ukrainian village was forced into a subterranean hell – and some did not come out alive.

Drunk on stolen booze and impunity, Russian soldiers humiliated, beat, raped, tortured and murdered the villagers, according to survivors – casually, for the slightest objection, a criticising glance or just on a sadistic whim.