A pile of passport are pictured inside a destroyed police station of in Izyum, eastern Ukraine on September 18, 2022. - In Kupiansk, Izum, Balaklyaya, in eastern Ukraine, towns freshly recaptured by Ukrainian forces, stories of arbitrary detentions and torture by the occupiers are coming to light. In the hospital in Izum, 67-year-old Mykhailo Chindey has recently started to walk again. His arm in a cast and sling is a painful reminder of the Russian presence in the city.
"On 27 August, the school near my house was bombed," he told AFP. "There were Russian soldiers in it and there were many dead and wounded," he said.
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