Rights groups say Moscow's practice of transporting captured Ukrainian civilians to Russia is illegal under international law. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, have vanished from Russian-occupied areas.
Ukrainian authorities believe cases of sexual assault by Russian occupiers are vastly underreported. Shame and many factors underlie survivors’ unwillingness to report rapes.
Months of stress have taken their toll on the families of the missing. Shcherba said she often found herself unable to eat or sleep. Her voice was subdued as she described the fighting that erupted in the village of Lubianka, where the family lives, just after the Russians pushed their way into the area during a failed attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital.
“I felt better, because I realized I had hope,” she said. “They were alive at least, and that meant they could potentially be rescued.” Bodies of the mayor of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, her husband and other family members are seen in a mass grave in the village near Kyiv on April 4.Like their three dozen fellow prisoners, the men were weak and emaciated, sharing a single person’s share of rations among them, the soldier recounted. Their quarters were cramped and squalid, and captives were routinely beaten.Ukrainian authorities begin recovering bodies from a newly found mass burial site in a forest recaptured from Russian forces.
Shcherba’s spirits were buoyed by the news that the group had helped free Viktoria Andrusha, a teenager accused of providing the Ukrainian army with locations of Russian forces in March.
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