Raped and tortured by Russian soldiers in Izyum, Alla’s story: “They laughed as they groped me”

He was raped AND tortured with electric shock At the52 year old citizen Izyumin the region of Kharkovin northeastern Ukraine, recently freed from the control of Russian forces they left behind after six months of occupation, death and destruction.

It was she herself who told her story to the Washington Post. After being a victim of the violence of Russian soldiers, she with a nail she engraved her name on the wall of the shed where she was kept. prisoner and three more words: “Electric shock, undress, painful.”

“I thought that if my son looked for me, he could find these writings and understand that I was there and that I was dead there,” he explained.

Alla was tortured, raped and swoop since last July. Russian soldiers kidnapped her to get information about her sonwho works for the Internal Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU. Her husband also underwent the same treatment.

According to her account, after surviving heavy bombing, Alla crossed a pedestrian bridge over the river that passes through Izyum to check out her son’s empty apartment near the center of town. It was last March.

Her son’s neighbors told her that the Russians had visited the building, asked for it and ransacked her apartment. The men “started taking everything away,” she recalled, including her coffee maker, television and washing machine. Fearing that all her belongings would be looted, he transferred the remaining valuables to the home of a close friend.

That same month, Russian forces began visiting her and her husband at their home, questioning them to find out if his son was hiding in Izyum and insisting he should cooperate with Russia. In addition, Alla worked for the Kharkiv gas company, so the Russians repeatedly ordered her to return to work.

but the real thing Calvary for her, it began in early July, when a dozen gunmen arrived outside her home with two cars marked with the symbol “Z”, they took her by force.

they have them covered her eyes, they tied her hands and put her and her husband in the trunk of one of the two cars. “You won’t get out of here alive”, they told her.” Either accept our rules and acknowledge that you live in Russia or you will be gone forever. Nobody will ever find you.”

Alla soon found herself inside a dark shed, not knowing that this would become yours prisonvisited only by a six-man commando.

“They forcefully undressed me, put me on the table and started touching me, everywhere,” added Alla, who continued: “They laughed as they groped me. They told me: You know what we do with Ukrainian women and mothers of officers of the Ukrainian security services? We tied them up naked in the main square and we send pictures of them to your kids so they can see what we can do with their parents.”

For three days, the group’s leader forced her to have sex with him while holding her husband hostage in a nearby garage. Alla said that she could hear him scream as troops beat him, and heard the commander tell him “he raped me and we both had fun”.

“I was determined to commit suicide. There were nails inside the barn and I was wearing a bra so I thought hang me”, Alla said again.” But it did not work. I started to cry. They heard me cry, came back and started harassing me again.” In September, he finally found freedom.