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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Former Russian soldier reveals he saw Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured

Konstantin Yefremov
Konstantin Yefremov: ‘I apologise profusely to the entire Ukrainian people for coming to their home with a gun.’ Photograph: UNPIXS/BBC

A senior Russian lieutenant who fled after serving in Ukraine has described how his country’s troops tortured prisoners of war and threatened some with rape.

Konstantin Yefremov left Russia in December after spending three months in the parts of the southern Zaporizhzhia oblast that were occupied in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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