A Russian-controlled Crimean TV channel has broadcast an ‘interview’ with Vladislav Yesypenko a week after the Ukrainian journalist was seized in occupied Crimea. Yesypenko has very clearly been beaten and is almost certainly giving the answers demanded of him. This staged event on March 18 is tellingly similar to the ‘interview’ for Russian state TV which Stanislav Aseyev, the Donetsk journalist and writer, held and tortured by the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ for two and a half years, has confirmed that he gave under duress.
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A view taken on Feb. 25, 2021, shows downtown Moscow and the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower.
