Roksolana Makar braved icy roads and the threat of drone strikes to interview a woman in the Ukrainian town of Izium who said Russian forces tortured her.Surrounded by woods and farmland, Izium still bears scars from a 2022 Russian occupation that left bridges smashed and buildings flattened. The woman told Makar, a war-crimes investigator for a Ukrainian nonprofit, that Russian soldiers detained her at a battery plant for 10 days that year.There, ?the woman said, she was beaten, electrically shocked, suffocated with a gas mask and raped."I asked them to kill me because I couldn't take it anymore," said the...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
