📸 Smoke rises from the Ukranian border city of Vovchansk, which is bombarded daily by heavy artillery on May 17, 2024.

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Russian forces use border-town captives as ‘human shields,’ Ukrainian officials say

Russian forces have captured dozens of civilians in the border town of Vovchansk, a Ukrainian official has said, with a top regional police officer accusing them of using the captives as “human shields.”

Serhii Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the Kharkiv regional police, told public broadcaster Suspilne News on Friday that Russian soldiers had kept about 40 civilians in a basement, near their “command headquarters.”

The people are being interrogated, and “those conducting the interrogations call themselves FSB employees,” Bolvinov said, referring to Russia’s domestic security agency, adding that the captives are being used as “human shields.”

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i think this is Hamas style.. a new low for Putin..

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