IZIUM, Ukraine ¨C Roksolana Makar braved icy roads and the threat of ?drone strikes to interview a woman in the Ukrainian town of Izium who said Russian forces tortured her.
Surrounded by woods and farmland, Izium still bears scars from a 2022 Russian occupation that left bridges smashed and buildings flattened. The woman told Makar, a war crimes investigator for a Ukrainian nonprofit, that Russian soldiers detained her at a battery plant for 10 days that year.
There, the woman said, she was beaten, electrically shocked, suffocated with a gas mask and raped.
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