Lilia Yapparova is a Russian journalist.Residents of the small Ukrainian town of Kamianka-Dniprovska reportedly began disappearing after its occupation by Russian forces in late February 2022. By the sixth month of occupation, agents with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) had detained Olena Yahupova, a local government employee and wife of a Ukrainian military officer. When she was brought into one of the rooms at the local police station, she saw plastic water bottles, cellophane bags, and adhesive tape arranged methodically on a table. “Torture is their favorite pastime — something they prepare for in advance,” Yahupova tells me in...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
