She said that Russian troops broke ATMs to cut off locals' access to cash, destroyed Ukrainian flags to excise their identity and trashed the learning materials in schools to sever access to the Ukrainian language, the use of which aroused suspicion among the invaders.She also recounted how Russians made themselves at home next door to terrified residents who feared what their new neighbors were capable of."We lost consciousness waiting to buy the most basic medicines, for example, sedatives, heart medicines," Iryna said.Those cities in the Kyiv region are where war crimes investigators are still picking through the rubble under which lies evidence of atrocities that Moscow has denied.On October 4, after 44 days in captivity, she said Russian soldiers put a bag on her head and took her to the village of Vasylivka, midway between Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol."