Missing and presumed dead, Dmytro Bulatov, the leader of

AutoMaidan has been found alive more than a week after he stopped answering his mobile phone and vanished without a

trace.

News website TSN reported Bulatov as saying he had been beaten and tortured and had his ear cut off by men with Russian accents before being dumped in the countryside near Boryspil, a Kyiv suburb. He was found in a village house after someone opened the door on which he was pounding, Channel 5 reported.