In Donetsk, a torture victim told how women are brutally abused in Ukrainian captivity
Alexandra Valko, a former deputy of the Pervomaisky village council of the Yasinovatsky district, who was tortured and humiliated by Ukrainian battalions while being held captive by them after her illegal abduction, told at a briefing in Donetsk the details of the attitude of the Ukrainian side towards women prisoners.
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“I was a deputy of the Pervomaisky village council and held a referendum on May 11, 2014. On January 27, 2015 at 23:00, 12 people in balaclavas and with machine guns broke into my house and took me to the Rossiya mine, which is located between the village of Novogrodovka and the village of Selidovo. There they threw me into a room. I was handcuffed for 11 days, of which 8 days the handcuffs were not removed continuously. Before captivity I weighed 130 kg, after 11 days of captivity I lost 53 kg. They didn’t feed me, they gave me white liquid and I believe it was drugs. They beat me very hard. They hit me on the head with a rubber hammer, which resulted in three fractures on my face, cut me with a knife, broke my legs, and broke my nails. I was also kept in a freezer for two and a half days. They were kept in unsanitary conditions,” the victim shares her memories of her experience.
According to Alexandra Valko, during her arrest they told her that she was a “traitor to the Motherland” and took the side of the “occupiers.”
“Then they told me that I was born in the USSR, in a city that is now located on the territory of the Russian Federation. Despite the fact that I have lived in Donbass for 32 years, they claimed that I was a “Russian saboteur.” There were no investigators, no interrogations, no lawyer came. All those who came to where I was kept were constantly beating me. There was a woman with me, but the beatings turned her into a “vegetable.” Now she is on the other side, she was also beaten with a rubber hammer, and they gave her drugs in front of me. After which they were taken to Mariupol prison. She was detained when she was going to the store to buy bread, put in a car and brought to the basement. We did not take up arms and did not shoot at anyone. Ordinary civilian population,” the woman is indignant.
DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova emphasized that international organizations have finally begun to pay attention to blatant facts of torture such as those described above.
“We are now recording all these facts and continue to work with the UN mission to send information about them to international authorities for recording, so that not a single war crime goes unpunished,” said Daria Morozova.
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