Taisia Herasymenko, 81, holds a picture of her son, Roman Herasymenko, who was shot and killed during the Russian occupation of Borodianka, Ukraine, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas
BORODIANKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Roman Herasymenko, 57, was shot in his hometown in Ukraine by Russian soldiers, his mother said, as he tried to recover a SIM card from his mobile phone which they had smashed. He struggled home but died hours later.
"He walked 50 metres away and they shot him," said 81-year-old Taisia Herasymenko, repeating an account she was given by her son in his final hours in Borodianka, a town in the Bucha district, northwest of Kyiv.
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