Thank You For Not Killing Us
BORONDIANKA, Ukraine – The first sign of trouble was when a group of Chechen soldiers broke into the gate. They jumped out of their jeeps, their combat boots hit the sidewalk loudly and ordered the 500 patients and staff of Borodianka’s special needs home to enter the yard, at gunpoint. “We thought we would execute,” Maryna Hanitska, the house’s director, said in an interview this week, days after Russian forces withdrew from Borodianka....