After his visit to Dnipro on April 3, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Chernihiv region and the village of Yagnidne, which was occupied by the Russians in 2022. He shared this information on his Telegram channel.
"I came to support the people of Yagnidne and to preserve the memory of what happened here during the Russian occupation," he wrote.
The President visited the school where the Russians held all the village residents for nearly a month. According to Zelensky, this was "one of the most cynical Russian crimes" – a crime against people and "everything human and humane."
Currently, reconstruction of the school and other recovery efforts are underway in Yagnidne. Work is also being done to memorialize what the people had to endure.
"None of us, and no one, will ever forget or forgive Russia for what it did," the President stated.
Note: Yagnidne village is located 140 km north of Kyiv, near the state border with Belarus. In March 2022, the Russian army captured the village and controlled it for a month. The occupiers took men, women, and children from their homes, and, threatening them with weapons, led them to the basement of the local school. There, 350 villagers were held for 28 days, from March 3 to March 31, 2022. During this time, 10 people died in the basement, and 17 were killed by the Russians.
