The conflict simply explained Sign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukraine All along an 8, 500km odyssey through Ukraine, we stumbled across horrific stories.... He is too gentle a person to shrug off the violence he was subjected to: his hands, numbed by torture, shook.“ I see their faces in my dreams.... Think what is happening as we talk, inMariupol in Donetsk.” Bodies in the Trostyanets morgue( Bel Trew) Yuri, 32, who was shot and tortured in a different basement by Russia