Yuri Nikolaev, a resident of Ukraine’s Hostomel who is using an alias for safety reasons, has located his stolen AirPods in Russia’s Ulyanovsk after Russian troops had left the region, he told Mediazona news outlet.
Yuri lives in an apartment complex in Hostomel. After the start of the Russian invasion, he and his wife left for western Ukraine and spent about two months there. Local residents who stayed in the city reported that Russian soldiers had broken into the majority of the flats.
Yuri and his wife returned to Hostomel in mid-April. The man says their flat was “turned upside down”, their door was broken and the windows shattered. Russian soldiers were unable to break the door of a neighbouring flat, so they broke the wall instead, Yuri notes.
“They stole two laptops, a MacBook Pro and a gaming laptop Lenovo, as well as a VR headset, a bathroom scale, a PlayStation with gamepads. They took alcohol, coffee beans, a portable speaker, all flash drives. They took all the batteries out of children’s toys,” Yuri lists off. “Some kitchenware is missing, plates and pans. They even took my wife’s Womanizer (a sex toy brand — translator’s note). What for?”
The man was able to track his stolen AirPods: they were found in a five-storey building in Russia’s Ulyanovsk. Yuri asked his relatives in Crimea to file a police report. However, the Russian police refused to investigate the offence as it had taken place “on the territory of another state, so it is impossible to determine the circumstances.”
The Ukrainian cities of Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin were under Russian occupation since the start of the invasion in February until late March. The Russian Defence Ministry earlier claimed that the Russian forces had left the city on 30 March. Numerous bodies of civilians were found in Bucha, a town near Kyiv, after the withdrawal of the Russian troops.
On 23 April, Mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk announced that the exhumation and identification of bodies in the city was complete. He noted that as of that date, 412 bodies were found, adding however that this number was not final.
