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Watching Vladimir Putin speak on Friday about his sham annexations of #Ukrainian territory as Russia’s “great liberation mission,” my colleague, @yuliagorbunova_, recalled a woman from occupied Kherson, whom she interviewed some weeks ago…
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Russia’s security agents had detained her entire family and interrogated her for hours with a plastic bag over her head.
All the while, she could hear her husband being beaten in the next room.
All the while, she could hear her husband being beaten in the next room.
“They kept asking me, ‘Are you a fascist?’ I told them that I was Ukrainian.”
“They said: ‘There is no such people. We are one people.’”
“So, I asked them, ‘if we are one people, why am I sitting here with a bag over my head, while you are beating my husband to death?’”
“They said: ‘There is no such people. We are one people.’”
“So, I asked them, ‘if we are one people, why am I sitting here with a bag over my head, while you are beating my husband to death?’”
