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‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
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Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”.


It would be weeks before officials could confirm what the Guardian and its reporting partners are publishing today. The unlabelled remains were those of a woman. Not a soldier, either, but one of the most high-profile civilians detained since the full-scale invasion.

The journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was captured in the summer of 2023 near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. It was at least her fourth reporting trip into the occupied territories. She was by this stage of the war the only Ukrainian journalist prepared to risk crossing the frontline in order to pierce the information blackout imposed by Russia.

Roshchyna died after a year in detention, aged 27.

Information on the circumstances of her death is limited. Roshchyna was held without charge and without access to a lawyer. During her detention, her only known contact with the outside world was a four-minute phone call to her parents, a full year after she was taken.

Preliminary forensics suggest “numerous signs of torture”, according to the prosecutor. Burn marks on her feet from electric shocks, abrasions on the hips and head, and a broken rib. Her hair, which she liked to wear long and tinted blonde at the tips, had been shaved.

Sources close to the official investigation have also disclosed that the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation. However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.

A war crimes investigation has been opened with a view to prosecuting those responsible.
 
altmin said:
www.theguardian.com

‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”.


It would be weeks before officials could confirm what the Guardian and its reporting partners are publishing today. The unlabelled remains were those of a woman. Not a soldier, either, but one of the most high-profile civilians detained since the full-scale invasion.

The journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was captured in the summer of 2023 near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. It was at least her fourth reporting trip into the occupied territories. She was by this stage of the war the only Ukrainian journalist prepared to risk crossing the frontline in order to pierce the information blackout imposed by Russia.

Roshchyna died after a year in detention, aged 27.

Information on the circumstances of her death is limited. Roshchyna was held without charge and without access to a lawyer. During her detention, her only known contact with the outside world was a four-minute phone call to her parents, a full year after she was taken.

Preliminary forensics suggest “numerous signs of torture”, according to the prosecutor. Burn marks on her feet from electric shocks, abrasions on the hips and head, and a broken rib. Her hair, which she liked to wear long and tinted blonde at the tips, had been shaved.

Sources close to the official investigation have also disclosed that the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation. However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.

A war crimes investigation has been opened with a view to prosecuting those responsible.
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Of all the things that confound me about MAGA, I will never understand how they turned the GOP from "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" to "Vladimir, stop!," while simultaneously demanding Ukraine's mineral rights as part of a deal that gives Putin everything he wants. Reagan was FAR from perfect, but his balls were 1,000 times larger than the eunuchs that make up today's GOP.
 
I've read two different articles on the minerals agreement and I still can't figure out what its terms or import are.
 
Huh? said:
I've read two different articles on the minerals agreement and I still can't figure out what its terms or import are.
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I assume we never will. Trump will never live up to his end of whatever vague deal he claims to have constructed, so the Ukrainians won’t feel compelled to, either.
 
Some interesting provisions in the new mineral deal that was signed. Not sure if I understand, but the fund that both sides contribute to is now 50/50 but the American contribution may need to be (can be) tied to weapons sells to Ukraine. I understand its item #10 on how it will work. So wow on that.

And now there's a reference to the Budapest Memorandum? Like maybe the Trump Administration has to own that? Humm.
 
Reagan was similar to Trump.

Remember, after the US Marine Barracks bombing in Lebanon (and the bombing of the French Barracks), we kicked the shit out of Grenada (although, that was a bit of a clusterfuck - a longtime climbing buddy was a West Point grade and a Captain in the 10th Mountain Division and part of invading Grenada). Iran was behind the attacks.

Reagan then traded weapons for hostages with the Iranians to benefit right-wing fucks in Central America.

How were Trump and Reagan similar:
  • Poorly informed
  • Charismatic to some/many
  • All hat/no cattle (they shared that with Dubya and Dick Cheney)
The big difference between Reagan and Trump. James Baker was in Reagan’s Administration and Trump has no Baker band, most importantly, doesn’t want one.
 
Zoo_View said:
Reagan was similar to Trump.

Remember, after the US Marine Barracks bombing in Lebanon (and the bombing of the French Barracks), we kicked the shit out of Grenada (although, that was a bit of a clusterfuck - a longtime climbing buddy was a West Point grad and a Captain in the 10th Mountain Division and part of invading Grenada). Iran was behind the attacks.

Reagan then traded weapons for hostages with the Iranians to benefit right-wing fucks in Central America.

How were Trump and Reagan similar:
  • Poorly informed
  • Charismatic to some/many
  • All hat/no cattle (they shared that with Dubya and Dick Cheney)
The big difference between Reagan and Trump. James Baker was in Reagan’s Administration and Trump has no Baker band, most importantly, doesn’t want one.
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Grim stuff
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“… As first responders rushed to the scene, a coordinated messaging campaign got underway across Russian media, including the state-controlled Izvestia newspaper. The blast, it was suggested, was the revenge of a distraught mother, driven to murderous insanity by the grief of losing her only son to the war after he was forcibly mobilized by the Ukrainian authorities. The soldiers who were killed, the messaging campaign added, were military recruiters.

As is the case with most Russian influence operations, nothing stated was true.

The killed soldiers didn’t work for any recruitment office; they were all members of Ukraine’s demining corps. The bomber, a 42-year-old mother from the city of Horishni Plavni in Poltava oblast, had left her very-much-alive infant child in a nearby hostel when she left on what became a “suicide bombing” mission. Recruited on the social media platform Telegram, which, despite its Russian ownership, is still ubiquitous in Ukraine, she was not aware of her lethal cargo. Her Russian intelligence contact told her merely that she was to deliver a large amount of money to a certain location.

The bomb had been prepared by a group of teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, also from Poltava oblast. They’d built the device under instruction from their Russian handlers and handed it off to its unwitting transporter. Russian intelligence tracked the woman’s arrival at the target site and detonated the package remotely. (The Ukrainian government has not released the names of any of the bombers or victims mentioned in this article.)

Nearly a month later, one early evening in March, two teenagers, one 15 and the other 17, were walking near the railway station in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, in a part of western Ukraine largely spared from the daily carnage of war, when the improvised explosives they were carrying detonated. The older of the two was killed instantly; his younger friend was hospitalized with severe injuries.

The device they had been carrying, which they’d assembled under the supervision of their Russian handlers, had been constructed with GPS tracking and remote detonation, as was the case with the bomb in Mykolaiv. As the two teenagers walked close to their target, their Russian handlers, who had initially recruited the pair with the prospect of earning “easy money” for simply making and planting the bomb, according to the Ukrainian security services, called in the detonation. The teenagers hadn’t realized they were going to be part of the butcher’s bill. …”
 
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