Yahidne (, ) is a Ukrainian village in
Chernihiv Raion
Chernihiv Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Chernihiv. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Chernihi ...
, around 140 km north east of
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
and around 15 km south of
Chernihiv
Chernihiv (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is
The city was designated as a Hero City of Ukraine ...
. The population was 318 people as of the 2001 census. It was
occupied by Russian forces during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
.
History
During the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
in 2022, the village was occupied by Russian forces who looted and destroyed much of it.
Inhabitants reported how during the Russian occupation of the village, soldiers forced more than 300 residents, of whom approximately sixty were children,
into the basement of a school at gunpoint, where they were held against their will from 5 March to 1 April that year.
Seven villagers were reportedly executed by Russian soldiers and ten people died due to the poor conditions in the basement. Reuters and al Jazeera have stated that, in total, at least twenty people have been killed or died; however, no official death toll has been published.
The journalist
Roman Nezhyborets was among those who were executed by Russian soldiers.
In the beginning of April 2022, Russian forces withdrew from the village as part of the coordinated regional
withdrawal from northern Ukraine.
In November 2024, German Foreign Minister
Annalena Baerbock
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (; born 15 December 1980) is a German politician and diplomat of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany), Germany's minister for foreign affairs from 2021 to 2025. I ...
visited the school basement and commented on the inhumanity of the Russian occupation.
[ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/5/7483073/]
References
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Villages in Chernihiv Raion