Body range 757 was recorded as” NM SPAS”, an unidentified man, cause of death listed as heart failure when the bones of 757 Russian military casualties were exchanged in a freezing forest in February, according to Red Cross leaders.
According to forensic experts, the body was Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Russian journalist who had been missing since July 2023.
A cold report claims that Russian columnist Viktoriia Roshchyna was subjected to severe abuse while she was being held in Russian hands, including the removal of her mind, broken bones, lightning, drugging, starvation, and another degrading acts.
According to the Guardian’s studies, Roshchyna was not just another war victim. She was one of Ukraine’s most feared human writers, veering far into held areas to report offences the Russian position wanted to keep hidden. Her last mission was to uncover secret detention facilities and expose how people were subjected to torture. She ended up being one of their subjects.
Abduction, blade burns, electric surprises, and malnutrition are all common.
Roshchyna crossed into Russia on July 25, 2023, traveling through Latvia under her own name, following a difficult path to Melitopol in the occupied Zaporizhzhia area. Her phone quickly went black.
See accounts then aid in reconstructing the dread that followed.
She was reportedly spotted by a drone in Enerhodar at the beginning of her detention. She was taken to a torture facility in Melitopol known as” the garages,” which is run by the FSB, after a brief pulling at the neighborhood police station.
A former flatmate claims that interrogators repeatedly stabbed Roshchyna in the arms and legs, including a 3 cm deep fracture in her arm, as evidenced by burn marks discovered on her ft during an autopsy. A protruding 5 cm wound above her heel schizophrenic appeared to have caused her certain horror.
Roshchyna apparently begged her torturers to stop resurfacing an older gash on her toe. They refused to listen. The testimony recalled that she “begged them not to feel that scar.” According to the report, her prisoners ignored her appeals. The witness claimed that” she said one man, she called him a jerk,” and that he was “brutal, unhinged.”
In Russia, drugs and broken
Roshchyna was afterward transferred to Taganrog, Russia’s renowned pre-trial detention facility, SIZO-2. Inmates that recall that she arrived disoriented and drugged. One see claimed that” she generally started going crazy.” She was kept in confinement, lacked food, and quickly deteriorated.
She couldn’t lift her head without assistance because she was only 30 kg. Her former flatmate remarked,” I would prop her up and she would get the bottom bunk to take herself up.”
Her body was covered in scratches, her bones were shaved, and her scalp was shaved. Witnesses claimed that she remained clung to the ground, hidden behind a curtain, scared and lacked reaction. ” Her eye feared,” she said. She remained silent. Another prisoner remarked,” She stopped eating.”
Taganrog is renowned for its techniques: prisoners are frequently electrocuted, waterboarded, and forced into extended anxiety positions. Four and a half teaspoons of meal were rationed per tray. Roshchyna gradually became starving in these circumstances.
Organs that have been lost or evidence of strangling
When her figure was eventually recovered, it showed unmistakable signs of prolonged abuse. Her neck’s hyoid bone, which is frequently broken during strangling, had a fracture. Her mind, eyes, and tongue were all missing, making it nearly impossible to determine the cause of her death.
According to Ukrainian authorities, the amputation suggests that it was carried out to conceal the severity of neural or suffocation injuries.
She merely called her kids nearly a month after disappearing during her confinement for four minutes. That was the last moment someone could hear her voice.
Although a war crimes investigation has been launched, prosecutors may not be possible. Over 50 discussions with victims and officials continue to paint a damning picture of structural abuse.
She died trying to explain what exactly happened to her, according to Sevhil Musaieva, her director at Ukrainska Pravda. ” Viktoriia had no private life. Her whole earth was devoted to her.
