'Torment of hell:' Ukraine medic describes Russians routinely torturing her and other prisoners

[highplainsdem]

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-09-15/ukraine-medic-describes-russian-torture

WASHINGTON — A volunteer Ukrainian medic detained in Ukraine’s besieged port city of Mariupol told U.S. lawmakers Thursday of comforting fellow detainees as many died during her three months of captivity, cradling and consoling them as best she could, as male, female and child prisoners succumbed to Russian torture and untreated wounds.

Ukrainian Yuliia Paievska, who was captured by pro-Russian forces in Mariupol in March and held at shifting locations in Russian-allied territory in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, spoke to lawmakers with the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, a government agency created in part to promote international compliance with human rights.

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Torture sessions usually launched with their captors forcing the Ukrainian prisoners to remove their clothes, before the Russians set to bloodying and tormenting the detainees, she said.

The result was some “prisoners in cells screaming for weeks, and then dying from the torture without any medical help,” she said. “Then in this torment of hell, the only things they feel before death is abuse and additional beating.”

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[thucythucy]

1. Horrific!

And this is the regime Republicans love to admire.

Which conservative pundit went all gushy on the "masculine" Russian military, in comparision to our "woke" servicemen and servicewomen?

And remember those T-shirts: "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat"?

In any given population, there's always a percentage willing to indulge their worst instincts.

[sanatanadharma]

3. Republicans are the regime that began applauding torture under Bush

It seems that the PNAC people did bring on a new American century of the mean, mad, miserable, monstrous, mediocre-man

[Ilsa]

2. I'd love to send the Magats to Moscow. nt

[2naSalit]

4. That might be better than GITMO!