Tim judah is covering the war in ukraine for the economist. What i saw was pretty gruesome. I was taken to a children's holiday camp. And in the basement were five men who ukraine said had been tortured, not by russians, soldiers. They certainly look to me as though they'd had a very bad time, and they'd been executed. There are also a lot of dead bodies in the streets in butcher monday. We've seen with our own eyes people who have been clearly executed. People wh'ave been shot in the head or shot in the chest, and they've had their their hands tied or their feet tied. Police told colleagues that
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