Chained to a radiator in eastern Ukraine, the former soldier watched his captors closely. It was 2014, at the start of a war that saw Russia-backed separatists seize towns and cities across the region, trying to wrest the area from the central government in Kyiv and push it into Moscow’s orbit. The former soldier had been collecting intelligence on the rebels, and they’d captured, beaten, and interrogated him once they discovered it.
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(Archive photo) An armed pro-Russian separatist stands guard in the village of Spartak near the airport of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on April 10, 2015.
