Artem Kariakin, a Ukrainian from Luhansk Oblast, spent eight years living under Russian occupation and covertly resisting it before escaping and joining the Ukrainian military.

In a conversation with The Kyiv Independent’s Yuliia Taradiuk, he explains how Russia established… pic.twitter.com/jGPsCb9OoU

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Artem Kariakin, a Ukrainian from Luhansk Oblast, spent eight years living under Russian occupation and covertly resisting it before escaping and joining the Ukrainian military. In a conversation with The Kyiv Independent’s Yuliia Taradiuk, he explains how Russia established

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