‘Russian soldiers tried to execute me’

The World

Andriy Kolesnyk lives in a contested suburb of Kyiv called Irpin. When Russian soldiers broke into his home, they found his two passports and were convinced he was a spy. Kolesnyk explains how he survived an execution attempt, and then watched the soldiers rob his home and drink all his liquor.

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