When the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties were exchanged, forensic experts discovered that Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old journalist missing since July 2023, was among them, having suffered severe torture in Russian custody. Reports detail her harrowing experiences, including electric shocks, drugging, starvation, and mutilation, as she attempted to document war crimes; her body was returned with missing organs and signs of strangulation. Authorities have initiated a war crimes investigation, highlighting the systemic abuse faced by Roshchyna, who dedicated her life to exposing such atrocities.
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