Quote:Olena Yahupova was first taken by the Russian occupiers in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar last October. Neighbours she knew had informed on her, telling the FSB secret police that her husband was a Ukrainian military officer. What followed, she says, was two days of torture with the secret police – which turned out to be only a prelude to a nightmare of five months of detention and forced labour, during which she also had to act in faked news clips. “There was a complete absence of any source of law, they did whatever they want,” Yahupova says, now speaking in Ukraine, describing the situation in a town after Russia “gradually built up this repression machine” aimed at liquidating opposition and trying to force locals to collaborate.‘They enjoyed this’: Ukrainian woman recounts five-month nightmare of torture and imprisonment | Ukraine | The Guardian
Quote:Police are investigating the suspected poisoning of two Russian exiles who attended a conference in Germany organised by a high-profile Kremlin critic. Detectives in Berlin said a “file had been opened” after two women reported symptoms suggesting a possible poisoning, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported, citing Russian investigative media group Agentstvo. The conference was arranged by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch-turned-dissident who was once one of Russia’s richest men.Two Russian exiles ‘poisoned’ at conference organised by Kremlin critic | The Independent
Quote:Russian infantry are dispatched on blind charges nicknamed ‘Zombie Waves’ across no-man’s land, running headlong into machine gun fireNo armour, no shoes, no hope – the daily life of a Russian soldier
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