Masinski Prevod sa danskog na engleski o stradanju Ukrajinki koje su juce razmjenjene preuzeto od Irine Bernstein.
Great was the joy when news of prisoner exchange came the other day. Now the horrible details of violence, abuse, and threats are emerging:
“Natalia said she was beaten in captivity. She says women were beaten despite their age, diseases... klix were beaten for tattoos with Ukrainian symbols. They also beat them mercilessly because they spoke Ukrainian.
- The worst happened in Taganrog (Ukrainian women were imprisoned). They beat the klix, and mocked the prisoners. They tried to break us Two men came and asked me to renounce my POW status and my Ukrainian citizenship.
"I don't want to do that" - I replied. I was beaten for three days. All of my legs were blue. They put me on a stretcher. I could not walk for a month, - the woman recalls the horrors of captivity - When we arrived at Valuyki, the investigator asked how we liked Taganrog. I told him it was a horror there. "In the last 15 years, nothing has changed there," he said. There was nothing good in Russia, and there isn't and will not be.
Natalia's husband Sergey Kuzmenko is still in captivity. Natalia is also very worried about him, because her husband has health problems - heart disease. She's worried he won't die in a foreign land. The woman appeals to everyone to bring her husband home as soon as possible. And not only him but also all the captured Ukrainians.
A disabled person has been abused:
Olga, who lives in the village of Rubizhne in the Kharkiv region, was taken from her home by the Russians in July. Olga has been disabled since childhood, and she speaks badly.
"They thought I gave information about them to someone," the woman says, "but I didn't. I told them the truth, but they didn't believe me. I talk badly and they asked me why I talk so slowly. And they said I should speak normally.
Most Ukrainian women were beaten by women
Olha Lykunova, a maid from the TRO (home guard) unit, is also about to return home. Day 24 In February, Olha went to the military registration and signed up to defend the country. And the 12th one April she was captured.
I stayed here for 6 months and 5 days, - says the defender, - They are just inhumane people. They told us no one needed us. They mocked us and beat us. Most of our women were beaten by their women. They hit them for no reason. They took us out of the cell in the morning and evening to count and beat us.
To enable the women released from captivity to call their families, they were given new mobile phones and SIM cards. That's why they could hear it near the buses: "I've been released, I'm fine".
Nurse Victoria was separated from her 4-year-old daughter
Among those released was a doctor from a military hospital, Victoria Obidina, who was separated from her 4-year-old daughter Alisa by the occupants on the 8. May during the evacuation process. As a result, the girl traveled from Mangush to Zaporizhzhia with strangers. Later Alisa was brought to her grandmother, who was in Poland.
- We only knew at the last minute that we had to exchange, - says the happy woman - We were loaded into the plane. We were transported with our eyes closed and hands tied. Today (17th) October - red. ) we weren't blindfolded but we had hats on and pulled up so we couldn't see the road, hands were tied up
When we were on the road, we discovered that we were driving toward Zaporizhzhia. We were very happy! We didn't believe it until the last minute. Until we crossed the line of contact and got into our buses.
Now Victoria Obidina's biggest dream is to meet her mother, see her daughter and get a job, but now she doesn't know how her new life will be.