Oksana Minenko, a 44-year-old accountant from Kherson, Ukraine, said she was left looking like “a living corps” after being brutally tortured and subjected to a mock execution by Russia…
A Ukrainian widow living in the battle-scarred city of Kherson said she has come to resemble “a living corpse” after having her hands boiled and nails pulled out during hours of torture — and being subjected to a mock execution at her husband’s grave by Russian soldiers.
Oksana Minenko, 44-year-old, who says she was repeatedly detained and tortured by occupying Russian forces, shows the scars on her face after having to undergo plastic surgery.Minenko, whose husband was a soldier who was killed in the war, said Russian forces plunged her hands in boiling water.Minenko, speaking in Kherson, said she was forced to kneel by her husband’s grave as Russian soldiers fired guns next to her.
“When you have a bag on your head and you’re being beaten, there is such a vacuum, you cannot breathe, you cannot do anything, you cannot defend yourself,” Minenko said.Local resident Vitalii Serdiuk, 65, shows his finger which he says was broken during torture by Russian service members.after being unable to hold onto the territory under relentless attacks by Kyiv’s forces.
A 35-year-old Kherson resident named Andriy said that during a five-day detention in August, Russian forces beat him, made him undress and administered electric shocks to his genitals and ears. When the current hits “it’s like a ball flying into your head and you pass out,” said the man, who declined to give his last name for fear of reprisals.
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