Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-30-2025/

This was award winning #Ukrainian journalist Viktoria #Roshchyna.

Kidnapped by #Russians, subjected to months of brutal #torture - body found months later, with head shaved, bones broken, marks related to electrical torture and organs such as eyes and trachea removed, likely to hide evidence of how she was finally killed.

This is the reality that Ukrainians face in every region of #Ukraine that Russians have managed to occupy, and this is why we fight.

The body of journalist Viktoriia #Roshchyna, who died and underwent torture in Russian captivity, was missing some internal organs, according to an investigation by the Forbidden Stories journalism network published on April 29.

https://kyivindependent.com/roshchyna-body-russian-captivity/

Opfer russischer #Folter: Journalistin Victoria #Roshchyna starb im Herbst 2024 in russsischer Haft. Recherchergebnisse in FAZ veröffenticht.
Zuerst wurde sie gefoltert und dann wurde ihr die medizinische Hilfe vorenthalten.
Unmenschlich. Russland ist nicht nur eine Autokratie, es ist eine menschenveranchtende Diktatur.
#DarthPutin
#Putin
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/ukraine-journalistin-roshchyna-stirbt-nach-folter-110340258.html

Investigators of the publication Slidstvo.Info found that Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia #Roshchyna, who died in 2024, had been brutally tortured in Russian captivity: she had stab wounds on her body, was electrocuted.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03/3/7501116/

Journalist Roshchyna died in Russian captivity held in one of the most brutal prisons’

in March 2022, #Roshchyna was detained for 10 days by #FSB leaving Berdiansk for #Mariupol. As a condition of her release, she was forced make video saying Russian forces saved her life

Roshchyna was held in at least 2 prisons

Both #DetentionCenters known for use of #torture

NGO said it's aware of prisoners #electrocuted in the Berdiansk #prison

https://kyivindependent.com/journalist-roshchyna/

Here’s what we’re reading today:

Ukrainian #journalist Viktoriia #Roshchyna, who was held in Russian captivity, has died.

She was recently transferred to a #Moscow detention center to be returned to #Ukraine.

Her death is being investigated as a war crime and premeditated murder.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/11/7479208/