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[David Morris]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61683513

The Russians said beatings were my re-education'


Dmytro said he was taken, with four other people, to a police station in
the village of Nikolsky, also a filtration point. "The highest-ranking
officer punched me four times in the face," he said. "It seemed to be part
of the procedure".

His interrogators said teachers like him were spreading pro-Ukrainian
propaganda. They also asked what he thought about "the events of 2014", the
year that Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and started supporting
pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. He replied that the
conflict was known as the Russo-Ukrainian war. "They said Russia was not
involved, and asked me whether I agreed that it was, in fact, a Ukrainian
civil war.

Back inside the tent in Bezimenne, Andriy noticed two other people with
their hands tied behind them, who had been left in a corner while the
officers paid attention to him. "They started to beat me way harder,"
Andriy told me, "everywhere". At one point, after a blow to the stomach, he
felt as if he was about to faint. He managed to sit on a chair.

"I wondered what would be better," he said, "to lose consciousness and fall
down or tolerate the pain further."