"The fighters said they had seen and searched the man the day before, when he was found with no money and no phone.
Now, on a day of fighting and with the Ukrainian Army at the city’s edge, he had reappeared and been found with a new cellphone and about $350 worth of Ukrainian currency — evidence, they said, that he was an informant. One fighter went through recent activity on the man’s phone, at one point striking him to speed up an answer. “He is a spy,” said another fighter, Dima."
Now, on a day of fighting and with the Ukrainian Army at the city’s edge, he had reappeared and been found with a new cellphone and about $350 worth of Ukrainian currency — evidence, they said, that he was an informant. One fighter went through recent activity on the man’s phone, at one point striking him to speed up an answer. “He is a spy,” said another fighter, Dima."