‘They are gone’: A village searches for answers after people disappeared under Russian occupation.

Russian soldiers had occupied a village in eastern Ukraine for about two weeks and were using a farm as a base. But the animals at the farm hadn’t been fed. Their incessant bleating was wearing on both occupiers and townspeople.

A group of five residents from Husarivka, an unassuming agricultural village of around 1,000 people, went to tend the cattle.

They were never heard from again.

What transpired in Husarivka has all the horrifying elements of the more publicized incidents involving Russian brutality: indiscriminate killings, abuse and torture, taking place over the better part of a month.

Human rights workers around Kyiv are gathering evidence of Russian atrocities, hoping to build the case for war crimes. But for the villagers of Husarivka, the occupation’s legacy is not measured in mass killings, corpses or ruined buildings, but in the disappearances of friends and neighbors. Read more

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