Villagers describe allegations of abuse and officials say they found a torture chamber in Kozacha Lopan, in the Kharkiv region, which Russian forces invaded and took over at the start of the war.
Luda Toryanyk, 58, walks across the railroad tracks in Kozacha Lopan, Ukraine, on Sunday. The village was retaken by Ukrainian troops on Sept. 11 after being occupied by Russian forces for more than six months. Toryanyk carries home bags of food that Ukrainian volunteers were distributing in the center of the village.Luda Toryanyk, 58, walks across the railroad tracks in Kozacha Lopan, Ukraine, on Sunday. The village was retaken by Ukrainian troops on Sept.
Bedding and sleeping bags in a basement where Ukrainian authorities say they found a torture cell used during the Russian occupation, in the retaken village of Kozacha Lopan on Saturday.Bedding and sleeping bags in a basement where Ukrainian authorities say they found a torture cell used during the Russian occupation, in the retaken village of Kozacha Lopan on Saturday.
of alleged torture of civilians. And residents have described to NPR allegations of abuse under the nearly 200 days of Russian occupation.Toryanyk says she watched her own son being marched to the train station by three Russian soldiers with guns in April. She says she waited outside the station, shivering in the rain, for two hours before they let him go.
"Later at night, when he screamed because of the nightmares, then I realized that he didn't want to upset me and that's why he hadn't told me that he was beaten," she says.After Russian forces invaded, many of the village's 4,000 residents fled either to Ukrainian-held territory or to Russia. Toryanyk says she stayed in Kozacha Lopan in part because she'd agreed to look after her neighbor's cats, dogs, flocks of chickens and geese.
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