A HEROIC Ukrainian mum imprisoned and tortured by Russian soldiers for three months has spoken of her terrifying ordeal. Yulia Paievska, 53, was thrown into solitary confinement, beaten, kicked, st…
When Russia bombed her hospital on March 15, Yulia loaded 20 women and children on to a bus to take them to hoped-for safety.
They drove from Mariupol through the “green corridor” to Zaporizhzhia where they were stopped and she was taken to a jail in Russian- occupied Donetsk.“They forced me to confess to crimes I didn’t do, for example that I killed the mother and father of the parentless kids on the bus, and that I harvested organs from soldiers.”
Yulia was freed on June 17 after a campaign by daughter Anna, who went to the European Parliament and spoke to"They didn’t want me to be free, they wanted to execute me. They told me that.Yulia, who took part last month in a link-up between TalkTV and stations worldwide to mark 150 days since of Russia’s invasion, said Harry called her a week after she was let out.
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