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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.
“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?’”
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