1/ Are NATO forces in Ukraine? That's what Russians want to believe.
Which is why they force Ukrainian prisoners of war to march chanting nursery rhymes in German, English, and Polish.
A look at school-shooter level of twisted degeneracy ... 🧵⤵️
2/ Friends who work with recently exchanged Prisoners of War are sending me testimonies from Ukrainians who survived these bizarre Russian camps.
Let's descend into a twisted world, as narrated by one of the Snake Island heroes, now back in Ukraine ⤵️
3/ Ukrainian Vladislav Zadorin, 26, recalls life in a Russian POW camp:
"Once a week, we were allowed to wash. It was a... painful process, because we had to walk to the washing area bent over so far that our heads almost touched the floor, w/our hands tied behind our backs. ⤵️
4/ “We were given... 10 seconds to wash, and then we had to quickly put on clothes... difficult to do when your body is wet...
They deliberately gave us clothes that were 2–3 sizes smaller... to make it harder to get dressed.
And then they beat us for [taking too long]" ⤵️
5/ And now to the bizarre "Nato parade."
Vladislav, whom the Russians had captured at Snake Island in 2022, writes:
"When moving to the ‘bathhouse,’ each cell had to shout a children’s counting rhyme in a foreign language." ⤵️
6/ “For example, the guys from my cell and I shouted in German, our neighbors in English, then in Polish, etc. We shouted ‘eins, zwei, drei, vier.’”
Keep in mind these are Ukrainian soldiers captured on Ukrainian soil in the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion ⤵️
7/ Vladislav continues:
“The guards were very pleased with this; they imagined that we were NATO soldiers and that they had defeated us. For them it was like an imaginary parade of NATO prisoners.” ⤵️
8/ The Russians live-out NATO fantasies as they destroy real Ukrainian lives, while actual NATO sits by on the sidelines.
Vladislav Zadorin was imprisoned at Stary Oskol, Russia, in 2022. He spent 679 days in Russian captivity.
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