Ukrainian Woman Says Russian Soldiers Shot Her Husband's Leg Off, Wore Her Clothes

A Ukrainian woman, whose village was overrun by Russian troops, said the soldiers ransacked her home and drunkenly shot her husband’s leg off.

The woman, identified as Zina Kilko, spoke from a hospital in Brovary, while her husband laid in a bed next to her after Russian troops charged through their village in the suburbs of Kyiv over the weekend. She described the Russian soldiers as hungry, cold and out of control in her interview with CNN’s Sam Kiley. Apart from robbing her of her money, the woman said the troops wandered about and even put on their clothes.

“They wore my woman's hat, my coat, my boots. They wore our clothes. They took our bedding ... I don't know what they've done with it," she told CNN, as quoted by Business Insider. "They slept. They ate. They wandered about. They stole our money.”

The woman said one of the Russian soldiers, who was drunk, had used a stolen shotgun to blast her husband’s leg off. Unfortunately, she and her husband had to remain trapped in a basement for two days before the man could receive medical attention in a hospital.

A midwife herself, Kilko said she and a nurse gave her husband first aid and helped stop the bleeding, while they were stuck in the basement.

The woman also noted two of the Russian soldiers later confessed they did not support the decision of their president, Vladimir Putin, to invade Ukraine. After spending two days in the basement, the woman’s husband was taken to a hospital in Brovary, where he received treatment for his injury.

Another woman, who remained in the war-torn country, said she was currently living in a dimly lit basement with around 20 other locals.

The woman named Olga Panchenko, 65, said they were taking shelter in a housing estate in northeastern Kharkiv.

Olga reportedly makes two trips from the shelter to her family’s tower block apartment every single day to provide food for her paralyzed husband and adult son, who “lost his mind after an accident." While the men live without any electricity or water, Olga climbs six floors every day to provide them with food in their apartment, which now has shattered windows and is in the line of fire of Russian shells.