A Ukrainian woman says she became a ‘living corpse’ after Russian forces reportedly tortured her for months in occupied Kherson.
Minenko was among them. She said her husband, a soldier, died on the first day of the invasion.
‘When you have a bag on your head and you’re being beaten, there is such a vacuum, you cannot breathe, you cannot do anything, you cannot defend yourself,’ she said. The torture she suffered is engraved in the mind of Oksana Minenko – and etched, literally, on her body Plastic ties for torture and a broken chair are seen inside the basement site
Detainees have described how their captors often interrogated them about Ukraine’s military, such as where weapons and explosives are stored. Reuters said that during a December visit to the basement, the ‘smell of human excrement filled the air’. Nationwide, prosecutors have opened probes into the alleged unlawful detainment of more than 13,200 people.
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