Anna Vorosheva, who spent 100 days in jail, recounted squalid, inhumane conditions: putrid drinking water, no heat or showers, having to sleep in shifts and hearing new prisoners screaming from being beaten.
Alina Kapatsyna sits in a house in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Men in military uniforms took her mother 45-year-old Vita Hannych away from her house in eastern Ukraine in April. Since the war in Ukraine began, many civilians have been detained by Russian forces and are languishing in jails for months without charges as their relatives seek to find out what's happened to them. KYIV, Ukraine — Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her mother.
Hannych is one of hundreds — and perhaps thousands — of Ukrainian noncombatants believed to be held by Russian forces for months. Some are deemed to be prisoners of war, even though they never took part in the fighting. Others are in a sort of legal limbo — not facing any criminal charges or considered to be POWs.
“The answers from everywhere were the same: ‘We did not take her away.’ Who took her then, if no one took her?” said Kapatsyna, who left the village in March for the Ukrainian-controlled city of Dnipro. Donetsk authorities labeled Hannych a POW and recently told the family she is imprisoned in the occupied city of Mariupol. It remains unclear when, if at all, she could be released.
The student from northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region was detained by Russia's military in March and has been held ever since without charges or any legal proceedings.
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