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‘Our captors electrocuted us – and they liked the job’ - what life was like for two American POWs captured by Russia

Ukraine: The Latest

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Are They Tortured Just for the Sake of Giving Us a Hard Time?

CNN's John Defterios has interviewed the two American prisoners of war held in Ukraine. The pair were tortured by Russian interrogators who thought they were CIA, he says. But to what extent did it have any sort of goal? Were they trying to get information from them? What was the point? He also talks about their ordeal after a prisoner swap with Saudi Arabia.

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