Head of Starobilsk City Military Administration Yana Litvinova suggests that the Russian occupiers could have kept thousands of civilians in Starobilsk (Luhansk region) in the dungeons.

"Those people that we know about, we count in dozens. And those who were in the dungeons and held [captured] are in the hundreds and, perhaps, even in the thousands," Litvinova told Interfax-Ukraine.

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The interview of Yana Litvinova, the head of the Starobilsk MBA, was prepared as part of a joint special project of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency and East Europe Foundation “Community Experience” (https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/919611.html), launched in support by the Stiykist’ Programme which is implemented by East Europe Foundation within a consortium of non-governmental organisations led by ERIM (Equal Rights and Independent Media, France) and funded by the European Union. Its purpose is to show the experience of Ukrainian communities in the adaptation and integration of forcibly displaced persons in order to increase the efficiency of the work of local self-government bodies. You can learn more about effective interaction with IDPs in the free online course "Adaptation and integration of IDPs: experience and opportunities" on the educational "Zrozumilo!" platform