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After Pakistan captured two pilots in a retaliatory strike that shot down two Indian aircraft Wednesday, the Pakistani army released a video that bizarrely shows one pilot sipping tea and thanking his captors for treating him well.

“I would like to put this on record and I will not change my statement if I go back to my country,” commander Abhi Nandan says in the video. “The officers of the Pakistani army have looked after me very well. They are thorough gentlemen, starting from the captain who rescued me from the mob…. This is what I would expect my army to behave as and I’m very impressed by the Pakistani army.”

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A man off-camera asks the pilot where he’s from, and in a conversational — almost apologetic tone — Nandan says, “Am I supposed to tell you this? Major, I’m sorry, I’m from down south.”

“I hope you like the tea,” the interrogator says a few moments later.

“The tea is fantastic, thank you.”