They found that he’d been gathering information about Russian military positions to share with Ukrainian forces; they also discovered he was gay.
Mr. Polukhin gave a detailed account of his detention to Projector, an Odesa-based human rights organization.
Mr. Polukhin lived in Kherson, a southern city of around 250,000 people that the Russians conquered with blinding speed in the war’s early days.
(This is a common practice by Russian forces, nominally to search for nationalist tattoos.)
“I think that all of them should be killed,” Mr. Polukhin said the man responded.
Persons:
Oleksii, Polukhin, ” Mr, they’d
Organizations:
Ukrainian, Russia
Locations:
Ukraine, Kherson, Ukrainian