'I want revenge': Mothers mourn the loss of two lifelong friends after they were captured and 'tortured by Russian soldiers'
Pavel told his mother he would return before he went off to fightHe lived there with his mother, Olena Balai, 49, and grandmother, Olga Dovhoshap, 78."They tortured him," his mother said, clinging to a framed portrait photograph of her only child, who was dressed in military uniform.
They had served together in the Ukrainian armed forces, fighting Moscow-backed separatists in the east of the country after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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