Article 6C8W4 ‘They enjoyed this’: Ukrainian woman recounts five-month nightmare of torture and imprisonment

‘They enjoyed this’: Ukrainian woman recounts five-month nightmare of torture and imprisonment

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Dan Sabbagh and Artem Mazhulin in Zaporizhzhia
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Russian occupiers have unleashed a reign of terror in the city of Enerhodar, detailed here by one survivor of the secret police

Olena Yahupova was first taken by the Russian occupiers in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar last October. Neighbours she knew had informed on her, telling the FSB secret police that her husband was a Ukrainian military officer.

What followed, she says, was two days of torture with the secret police - which turned out to be only a prelude to a nightmare of five months of detention and forced labour, during which she also had to act in faked news clips.

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