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The Sun
30-04-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Chilling reason why Russia removed eyes & brain of mutilated Ukraine journalist after she was snatched reporting on war
RUSSIA removed the body parts of a kidnapped Ukrainian journalist to hide the horrific torture she had to face at the hands of sick troops, Kyiv has claimed. Award-winning reporter Viktoria Roschyna, 27, was brutally beaten and tortured in occupied Ukraine, where she was being held as a prisoner of war. 5 5 5 Vile Russian troops even mutilated her body while she was in captivity. And she was sent back to Ukraine in a body bag, which was wrongly marked as "unidentified male". DNA testing confirmed that the emaciated body, with her head shaved and a broken neck bone, was Roshchyna's. But her body parts, including her eyes, brain and even larynx, were removed before being sent back to Ukraine. Officials in Kyiv claim that it is likely Russian forces took those parts out to hide the atrocious torture she had to go through while in captivity, according to the DailMail. It is known to be a common practice in Russia to remove the body parts of prisoners who have been tortured beyond the limits to hide human rights violations. Authorities were still able to confirm there were "numerous signs of torture and cruel treatment". Investigators also found burn marks on her feet, likely traces of electric shock. An expert told Important Stories: "The larynx can be important evidence in cases of strangulation. "When a person is strangled, the hyoid bone [in the neck] is often broken. How scheming Putin has undermined Trump's 100 day peace plan for finally end bloody war in Ukraine The expert continued: "Haemorrhages can be found in the whites of the eyes, and oxygen deprivation can be detected in the brain." She is also said to have suffered a broken rib, according to local media. Tragic Roshchyna vanished into Putin 's penal hell in 2023 while reporting in Ukraine's occupied territories. Former PoWs held alongside Roshchyna said she was detained in Energodar in summer 2023. 5 5 Three days after being captured she was transported to Melitopol, where she was held captive for four months and subjected to ruthless torture. In critical condition, she was then sent to Taganrog's SIZO-2 - an infamous site which has been dubbed a "concentration camp". A former inmate seemed to disagree and said: "Even the word 'concentration camp' would be too mild for SIZO-2." She had fevers, her menstruation stopped, and she suffered from abdominal pain. Yet the heroic reporter rejected her captors, and reportedly told guards: "I will never cooperate with you." Roshchyna worked for digital media organisation Hromadske TV among other outlets.
Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Russia returns mutilated body of top Ukrainian reporter, 27, with her eyes and brain missing after torture in Putin's brutal jails
Russia gave back the body of a detained award-winning Ukrainian female journalist with her eyeballs, brain and part of her larynx missing, it has been revealed. Prisoner of war Viktoria Roshchyna, 27, was held in occupied Ukraine and tortured by Vladimir Putin 's brutal regime. The body bag she was sent home in marked the corpse as an 'unidentified male'. DNA testing confirmed the emaciated body - with her head shaved and a neck bone broken - was Roshchyna. There were 'numerous signs of torture and cruel treatment', said on the body, said representative of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, Yuriy Bielousov. Ukrainian investigators found burn marks on her feet, likely traces of electric shock, and a broken rib, reported independent news outlet Important Stories. She had vanished into Putin's penal hell in 2023 on a reporting mission inside Ukraine's occupied territories. Her internal organs were likely missing in a crude attempt to hide the torture which is routine in the Russian system. 'The larynx can be important evidence in cases of strangulation,' an expert told the news outlet. 'When a person is strangled, the hyoid bone [in the neck] is often broken. 'Haemorrhages can be found in the whites of the eyes, and oxygen deprivation can be detected in the brain.' Former POWs held with Roshchyna - who worked for digital media Hromadske TV and other outlets - said she was detained in Energodar in the summer of 2023 and three days later transported to Melitopol, where she was held captive for four months and subjected to torture. From here, she went to Taganrog's SIZO-2 - likened to a concentration camp - in a critical condition. She had fevers, her menstruation stopped, and she suffered from abdominal pain. Yet she still defied her captors, telling guards: 'You are occupiers, you came to our country, you kill our people... I will never cooperate with you!' A former inmate said: 'Even the word 'concentration camp' would be too mild for SIZO-2.'
Daily Mirror
29-04-2025
- Daily Mirror
Russia returns body of female Ukrainian reporter with eyes and brain MISSING
Viktoria Roshchyna, 27, was taken as a prisoner of war after heading inside occupied areas of Ukraine to report on the invasion - her mutilated remains have now been returned The body of a Ukrainian journalist detained by Russia earlier in the war was finally returned, but with her eye and brain missing after suffering horrific torture at the hands of the Kremlin. Viktoria Roshchyna, 27, was taken as a prisoner of war in 2023 after heading inside Ukraine 's occupied territories on a reporting mission. She vanished into Russia 's hellish penal system and her severely emaciated body has now been finally returned to Ukraine. The body bag she was sent home in marked the corpse as an "unidentified male' before DNA tests finally proved the remains - missing her eye, part of her larynx and brain - were Viktoria. Investigators believe the organs were removed in an attempt by the Russians to hide the torture she suffered at their hands. They also found burn marks on her feet, likely traces of electric shock, and a broken rib. An expert told news outlet Important Stories: 'The larynx can be important evidence in cases of strangulation. When a person is strangled, the hyoid bone [in the neck] is often broken. Haemorrhages can be found in the whites of the eyes, and oxygen deprivation can be detected in the brain.' Former POWs held with Roshchyna - who worked for digital media Hromadske TV and other outlets - said she was detained in Energodar in the summer of 2023. She was later transported to Melitopol, where she was held captive for four months and subjected to torture. From here, she went to Taganrog's SIZO-2 - likened to a concentration camp - in a critical condition. She had fevers, her menstruation stopped, and she suffered from abdominal pain. Yet she is reported to have defied her captors, telling guards: 'You are occupiers, you came to our country, you kill our people... I will never cooperate with you.' A former inmate said: 'Even the word 'concentration camp' would be too mild for SIZO-2.' The prison earned a reputation early in the occupation for torture, with beatings a daily happening. Inmates were made to admit war crimes during torture sessions and were denied access to lawyers or human rights activists. Among the inmates are soldiers who refused to take part in notorious Russian 'meat-grinder' assaults on the frontline. Others are held because they had tried to escape, or for other supposed transgressions. Horrific acts of torture have been reported from prisoner of war camps in Russia where captured Ukrainian soldiers are fed dog food and suffer sickening cruelty. Inmate Oleksiy Kretsu revealed he had witnessed the torture of two prisoners whose genitals were stunned. He said: 'There were women in their bathhouse. And they loved to beat us in the genitals with boots, stun guns, anything. They also beat us during interrogations. 'I'm just a simple border guard, not an assault trooper, not a marine, not a machine gunner. I lost half of my teeth during these interrogations.'
The Sun
29-04-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Putin returns mutilated body of female Ukrainian reporter with eyes & brain MISSING after her torture by Russian captors
SICK Putin has returned the disfigured body of a tortured Ukrainian journalist - after Russian pawns removed her brain and eyes. Award-winning reporter Viktoria Roschyna, 27, was brutally beaten to a pulp in occupied Ukraine where she was being held as a prisoner of war. 8 8 8 Vile Vlad 's troops sent a body bag to Ukraine, marking the corpse as an "unidentified male". But DNA testing confirmed the emaciated body - with her head shaved and a neck bone broken - was Roshchyna's. Ukrainian authorities confirmed there were "numerous signs of torture and cruel treatment". Investigators also found burn marks on her feet, likely traces of electric shock. She suffered a broken rib according to local media. Her eyeballs, brain and parts of her larynx were missing. Her internal organs were likely removed in a crude attempt to hide the horrifying torture which she was subjected to - a common practice in Russia. An expert told Important Stories: "The larynx can be important evidence in cases of strangulation. "When a person is strangled, the hyoid bone [in the neck] is often broken. The expert continued: "Haemorrhages can be found in the whites of the eyes, and oxygen deprivation can be detected in the brain." Putin's raging TV mouthpieces turn on Trump & vow to continue the war in Ukraine Tragic Roshchyna vanished into Putin 's penal hell in 2023 while reporting in Ukraine's occupied territories. Ex-POWs held alongside Roshchyna said she was detained in Energodar in summer 2023. Three days after being captured she was transported to Melitopol, where she was held captive for four months and subjected to ruthless torture. In critical condition, she was then sent to Taganrog's SIZO-2 - an infamous site which has been dubbed a "concentration camp". A former inmate seemed to disagree and said: "Even the word 'concentration camp' would be too mild for SIZO-2." She had fevers, her menstruation stopped, and she suffered from abdominal pain. Yet the heroic reporter rejected her captors, and reportedly told guards "I will never cooperate with you". 8 8 8 Roshchyna worked for digital media organisation Hromadske TV among other outlets. She will go down as another tragic victim of Vladimir Putin 's meatgrinder war in Ukraine - which also took the life of a 12-year-old girl over Monday night. It comes as mad Vlad's top TV puppet blasted Donald Trump in a bile-filled rant and vowed more slaughter in Ukraine, days before Russia's own ceasefire is due. Vladimir Solovyov revealed Putin's intention to keep killing, abandoning the pretence that Russia supports Trump's peace mission. Meanwhile, Zelensky hailed the "liquidation" of Russian generals by Ukraine's spies after one was blown up by a car bomb in a suspected Ukrainian hit. Russian military head Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik was pulverised by a car bomb in Moscow last week. Terror drone attacks continued to ravage Ukraine. In the Dnipropetrovsk region a 12-year-old girl was killed, and other children were pulled alive from the rubble following a devastating strike. A six-year-old girl and two adults were wounded in the attack. And in Kyiv, a three-storey recreation centre was burned to the ground by a strike, leaving one woman injured. Last week, The Don blasted Putin for "stringing him along" hours after historic peace talks with Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky and Trump were pictured meeting for the first time since their historic White House spat just before Pope Francis' final farewell. 8 8
France 24
29-04-2025
- Politics
- France 24
Forbidden Stories investigates a journalist's disappearance in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Viktoriia Roshchyna's editors told her not to go. Hromadske TV, the independent Ukrainian outlet that had been her main employer, even stopped working with the young reporter since she was so determined to keep travelling to Russian-occupied territory. But other editors took her stories, because they were important. Viktoriia wrote about the occupation regimes the Russians and their local collaborators were putting in place, about the occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and about the terror: how Russia was snuffing out resistance by detaining, threatening, beating and killing thousands of local civilians. Viktoriia never returned from what is thought to have been her fourth trip, however. She disappeared in August 2023 and was confirmed to be in Russian custody in April 2024. The Russian defence ministry wrote to Roshchyna's father in October to say that she had died. It was not until February 2025 that a body marked simply '"unidentified male'" was delivered to Ukraine, among 757 bodies returned by Russia in a swap. It turned out to be a female body, and DNA tests in Ukraine and abroad showed that it matched Viktoriia's (her father disputes the test and has requested further investigation). FRANCE 24 has been working with a consortium of 13 media under the umbrella " Forbidden Stories", the aim of which is to investigate the fates of journalists who have been killed or otherwise silenced, and to continue their work. Its reports are published today. While few other Ukrainian journalists were prepared to take the risks Viktoriia did, most would agree that the stories she worked on needed to be told. From government-controlled Ukraine, various media seek to publish information about the occupied territories, though it is often hard to obtain and even harder to verify. Crimea Realities and Donbas Realities, offshoots of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, were specially created after the occupation of those regions. Others are local media in exile. FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg 's first report as part of the Forbidden Stories' Viktoriia Project is about two editors-in-chief: Crimea Realities' Volodymyr Prytula, who left Crimea in 2014, and Oleksandr Hunko of the Nova Kakhovka City, a local news website in the occupied Kherson region, which he left in summer 2022. Both now face the additional challenge of finding new sources of funding after the Trump administration's cuts.
