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<\/p>\nA teen who was snatched off the street by Vladimir Putin\u2019s thugs and detained in a twisted detention camp has lifted the lid on his traumatizing experience in captivity.<\/p>\n
Vitaliy Mukharsky, 14, went out for a causal walk for his uncle in the quiet village of Kyseliva in Ukraine\u2019s Kherson region when he was confronted by Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n
The occupiers scrolled through their cell phones and realized that they had been in contact with Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n
The Russian thugs brought them to a petrol station and proceeded to beat the teen and his 27-year-old uncle Oleksiy, striking both in the kidney and face before hurling them into a sinkhole that was filled with pork guts.<\/p>\n
The brutes kept the terrified Ukrainians there for two hours, threatening to throw grenades and fire bullets down there.<\/p>\n
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But they were soon brought somewhere that may have been even worse.<\/p>\n
With sacks over their heads and their hands tied with rope, the pair were driven to Kherson and thrown into a small jail cell. They were blindfolded once again and taken to a dark, cold basement.<\/p>\n
Vitaliy told the @surgeukraine7752 Youtube channel: \u201cI didn\u2019t eat at all for the first four days. We were given two spoons of buckwheat and two spoons of macaroni a day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was scared of gunshots because they were playing Russian roulette. They were shooting randomly with their eyes closed.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI saw blood coming into our cell through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vitaliy\u2019s mother shared her fears over her son and brother being potentially killed after hearing about how cruel Russian soldiers could be.<\/p>\n
The uncle and his nephew were later freed after the soldiers blindfolded them, and just \u201cthrew\u201d them away.<\/p>\n
While the Russian occupants were later driven out of the area Vitaliy is terrified that the soldiers will take him away again.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, a shocking report revealed that Ukrainian kids were being sent to re-education camps and put them through “information zombification”.<\/p>\n
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This involved an attempt to rid them of their Ukrainian identity and turn them into pro-Russian citizens.<\/p>\n
A group called Into the Hands of Children was allegedly responsible for taking Ukrainian youngsters into Russia, changing their names and making them nearly impossible to trace.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian military investigations site Molfar\u2019s report showed at least 43 facilities in Ukraine and Russia are conducting this chilling “ethnic cleansing” operation.<\/p>\n
Children here go through a process of “information zombification” and are told they have been abandoned by their parents while being bribed with sweets and toys.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian families are also reportedly being starved and denied medicine and food unless they accept Russian passports, an investigation by The US Sun revealed.<\/p>\n
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Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, spokesperson for Ukraine\u2019s territorial defence forces, told the outlet: \u201cIn the occupied regions, school teachers are forced to collaborate in brainwashing pupils with an anti Ukraine agenda or Russian teachers are shipped in as replacements.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the Donetsk area families who don\u2019t send their kids to these schools are visited by Russian FSB officers who threaten to deny them basics such as food and medicine unless their children get back in the classroom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have no choice. Any welfare state has collapsed, people are ruled by tyranny.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have intelligence from sources in the resistance that Donetsk parents are also being forced into downloading so-called school apps on their phones which are, in reality, tracking software.\u201d<\/p>\n
She later added that \u201cthe Russians claim they are taking kids away from war but children are essentially being held as hostages and being brainwashed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Last month, a shocking investigation exposed the brutal torture tactics used at detention centers across Kherson, where almost half of the Ukrainian detainees were subjected to excruciating methods such as rape and electrocution.<\/p>\n
The Mobile Justice Team found that Ukrainian prisoners were reportedly forced to undergo excruciating horror tactics ranging from genital electrocutions to threats of genital mutilation.<\/p>\n
Some were also forced to witness the rape of another detainee with a foreign object covered in a condom and were victims of sexual violence tactics employed by pro-Russian perpetrators<\/p>\n