From: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty By RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service and Natalka Koshelieva
Tetyana Tipakova is still haunted by the memory of torture she endured in 2022 after the Russian military arrested her for expressing opposition to their occupation of Ukraine.
She was held for months in a cell that was just 3 meters long and only half that width, she says.
“They beat you with their hands and with their feet and with objects,” she said. “They beat me with a book and a wooden stick.”
Whatever happens, she told herself at the time, don’t collapse.
“If you fall, you understand that you have to get up, because when you’re down, they’ll kick you and it will be even more painful.“
Tipakova is one of thousands of Ukrainians who have been systematically abducted and tortured by Russian forces, say reports by investigative journalists at The Guardian, Azov Sea News, and IStories.
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