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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
George Gaynor

Ukraine claims villagers near Russian border were tortured by Putin's army

The Ukraine government claims the Russian army has been torturing villagers in towns near the Russian border

PROSECUTORS in an area of Ukraine where Russian forces recently retreated in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive are making fresh accusations that Russia tortured civilians in one freed village.

Prosecutors in the Kharkiv region said, in an online statement, that they had found a basement where Russian forces allegedly tortured prisoners in the village of Kozacha Lopan, near the border with Russia.

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