Every Western polician who denies sending long-range heavy arms to Ukraine has to start the day w a story about a Ukrainian who survived russian occupation & kidnapping.

The head of a village in the Kherson region Viktor Marunyaka tells about tortures he went through /1
He was abducted by russians and tortured for several weeks. He recalls: "They brought me to one of the bases, I was kept there for the 3 days. The room was cement & cool. The first night we slept standing up." They beat him every day /2
"Then we slept sitting. They could only give us a cup of tea in the morning – the whole meal for the day. For 2-3 hours they were keeping us undressed. Then they say 'we will go to the river, you will swim and you will drown'. Or they would point a gun at one of us" /3
"On the 4th day, they put a sack over our heads & took us to #Kherson. There they have beaten us over again. Somehow they did it all with pleasure. Several more interrogations followed." /4
Then they took him to the hospital, where he spent 10 days. His relatives lived nearby & he could visit them. He could finally call his wife who did not hear anything for 3 weeks. "There were rumors that I hanged myself in the cell. While I was gone, my wife had two looting" /5
"2 days ago they were looking for me again. We already left & got out just in time. And 3 days ago, the door was broken in the house bc there was a rotation. They left with the loot, and now they are robbing new houses"

The never-ending nightmare happens in the occupied towns /6
Source: Ukraine Now
*politician, of course 🤦🏼‍♀️

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