
They play Russian ballads about crime and punishment to drown out the screams when they take prisoners for interrogation in the torture cell. You might come back with fewer teeth, some broken ribs, or you might not come back at all.
That is life in captivity for Ukraine’s fighters, where they face treatment that former inmates say breaches the Geneva Conventions, including regular violence, torture and the withholding of sleep and food.
'This is a war that no Russian wants to fight.'
Con Coughlin, Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor at the Daily Telegraph, says 'the whole Putin era is starting to collapse' as more than 730 protesters were detained across Russia.
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