Halya Coynash: 'Saboteur' or tortured victim of Russia's 'Ukrainian state terrorism' hysteria shown on TV

The threatened Russian 'response' to alleged 'attacks' by Ukraine on Russian-occupied Crimea has not included answers to very basic questions, with the Russians supposedly killed remaining unnamed, together with almost all the alleged 'saboteurs'. The OSCE monitoring mission has confirmed that they are unaware of any hard evidence for such attacks. This is hardly surprisingly, since none at all has been provided. Specific answers are urgently required, because of the uses Russia is already making of its supposed anti-terrorist alert and because once again the entire 'story' is being substantiated by one imprisoned Ukrainian - Yevhen Panov - whose relatives assert he was abducted, and who looks as though he has been beaten. In a format Russia has used since 2014, Panov has now 'confessed' on state-controlled Russian TV.