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Yegor Ivanovich is a modern-day Odysseus, only his long journey to return home is no myth. From a temporary shelter in Tbilisi, Georgia, he recounted a twisted tale of being a victim of a war crime while serving prison time, exuding relief that the worst part of his ordeal seemed to be over. Yegor’s story begins with a carjacking in 2019. Early the following year, he was convicted of the crime by a court in Ukraine’s Vinnitsa region and sent to a prison in Mykolaiv to serve a four-year sentence. There was nothing unusual about his time behind bars until Russia launched its unprovoked invasion …

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