Dozens gather outside a private house near Kyiv saying soldiers are being held and beaten there

 from Meduza

Several dozen people gathered outside a house in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka in Ukraine’s Kyiv region on the evening of November 2, saying people were being held inside and that their captors “are torturing” them. Hromadske, Interfax-Ukraine, and other Ukrainian news outlets reported the incident.

Residents said several men who may have left their military units without permission were being held in the private home, along with service members from a Ukrainian National Guard unit. Residents tried to storm the property and force open the gates. One woman outside the house told journalists that her son was inside after officers from a Territorial Recruitment Center, Ukraine’s equivalent of a military enlistment office, detained him on his way to work.

Doctors, senior Kyiv regional police officials, and National Guard commanders soon arrived at the scene. A correspondent for the news agency UNIAN reported that four people were brought out of the house. One reportedly had a broken spine...

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