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Russian roulette, blood-soaked torture rooms & 7am brainwashing drills: inside Putin’s chilling ‘zombie’ camps for kids | The Sun
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HE was just 14 when Putin’s thugs snatched him off the street as he took an walk in the tiny Ukrainian village where he lived.
Vitaliy Mukharsky and his uncle Oleksiy, 27, were blindfolded and thrown into a pit of pork intestines before being taken to jail where the teen was starved for four days.
Vitaliy said: “I was scared of gunshots because they were playing Russian roulette.
“They were shooting randomly with their eyes closed. I saw blood coming into our cell through the door.”
His uncle was quizzed by Russian FSB gangsters and when the pair were finally freed 10 days later Olesksiy emerged grey-haired.
But Vitaliy is just grateful they escaped with their lives – other Ukrainian children have not been as lucky.
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This summer the war-stricken country grieved as it reached the grim milestone of 500 children killed in the invasion.
And another 19,500 have been abducted and taken to sinister Russian brainwashing 'zombie' camps – possibly lost forever.
Those who have escaped the camps – masquerading as schools – describe being beaten, starved, kept in basements, put in isolation rooms and forced to sing the Russian national anthem.
The Sun can today reveal how Russians in occupied areas of Ukraine are striking further fear into the hearts of parents as they ship in teachers from the former Soviet Union – and terrifyingly spy on families through school apps.
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