Torture Stokes Fear and Resolve as Ukraine Standoff Deepens
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Set free in the snowy woods outside Kiev after being tortured for hours, Ukrainian opposition activist Ihor Lutsenko considers himself lucky. His fellow protester, Yuri Verbitsky, froze to death, unable to move when he was dumped a few kilometers away.
“I was praying because I thought it was my last moment,” Lutsenko, 35, said by Skype from his hospital bed in the capital on Jan. 29, eight days after the attack.