Eat it!' The Russian soldier grins as he barks out the order and lowers his rifle directly at Dimitri's head. Slowly, Dimitri puts his Ukrainian passport to his mouth and starts to bite at the corner.It's tough and hard and laminated: impossible to chew, let alone swallow. Dimitri gags; the soldier smirks. The men are at a military checkpoint in Russian-occupied south Ukraine and this, the soldier explains, is what happens to those who refuse a Russian passport.At the centre of the thicket of lies that surrounds 's invasion and occupation of Ukraine is the myth that Ukraine is merely part of a 'Greater Russia' and its people merely Russians who have lost their way.
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