A survivor of the Syrian civil war has warned that the brutality being unleashed by the Russians in Ukraine is only the beginning.
For Abdel Kafi al-Hamdo, the heart-breaking scenes that have been coming out of Ukraine since February 24 remind him of another conflict.
The English teacher was swept up in the Syrian civil war, which saw President Bashar al-Assad's forces fight various opposition factions with the backing of Vladimir Putin's Russia.