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Olena agreed to speak, on one condition: not to start directly with what was inflicted on her, but to first listen to her whole story, from the beginning.
Before testifying, Olena sets a table, then steps aside and leaves an empty chair.
She marks a distance, or perhaps an absence, and settles a little further into the room.
On the chair left empty, she will only sit to show how her torturers tied her up.
“I come from Kamianka-Dniprovska, a village south of Energodar, in the
Zaporizhia region
,
” begins Olena, 51 years old.
When the war broke out
, I was alone: my daughters studied and worked far away while my husband, a soldier, was already deployed on the front.
From February 27, 2022, armored vehicles marked with the letter Z arrive…”
On October 6, 2022, Olena was arrested at her home by “
two soldiers and an FSB agent called Yan Zanevsky
”.
Also read “They tortured just for fun”: survivor of the hell of Izoliatsia, the secret Russian prison in Donetsk
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