The Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk region have added another weapon to their arsenal of torture methods used against Ukrainians they accuses of ‘spying’. As well as pulling out his teeth, beating and using electric shocks, the militants threatened to seize the infant son and daughter of Viacheslav Shabolda and cut off their heads if he did not ‘confess’. Shabolda’s wife and the children are now safely on government-controlled territory, but the 32-year-old remains imprisoned.
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A Russian flag flies near Russia-backed separatists sitting atop a 2S1 Gvozdika (122-mm self-propelled howitzer) as a convoy moves from the frontline near the eastern Ukrainian city of Starobeshevo in Donetsk region, on Feb. 25, 2015.
