‘Some stay, some die’: The horror of Ukraine’s war camps

Survivors give grisly testimony of torture, executions at war camps in eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions.

Kyiv, Ukraine – Ihor Kozlovsky smiled happily while taking pictures of a crowd that chanted Ukraine’s national anthem in mid-April 2014. Although there was already little to smile about in Donetsk, a multicultural city of one million in Ukraine’s southeast. Europe’s hottest armed conflict would soon turn it into a depopulated bastion of neo-Stalinism.