“Investigation journalists learned that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna died on September 19, 2024 in a detention center in Kizel of the Permian Territory of Russia. Earlier it was known that Rozhyn was kept in the occupied territories and in Taganrog, and the place of her death remained unknown.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Investigation “Investigation.Info”
Details: Journalists in closed Russian bases found a certificate of death of Roshchina. The document was published by the Lenin Department of Civil Status Record of the City Administration of the Permi. The date of death recorded in this document is September 19, 2024.
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The head of the Second Department of the Department of Combating Crime, committed in the conditions of armed conflict, the office of Prosecutor General Taras Semkiv said that Victoria’s death came directly to the Kizel detention center. Its causes are still being established by the official investigation, as the body of Roshchina has been returned to Ukraine in a state that did not allow a full-fledged forensic research.
Straight language Semkiv: “She was in this place for less than two weeks, and it was there that her death took place. It was in the pre -trial detention center in the city of Kizel.”
Details: Also, journalists spoke with a witness who was traveling in one train with Roshchin during a stage to Kizel.
The serviceman dismissed from captivity, Danilo said that on September 11, 2024, 8 days before his death, Roshchina was stage from the Taganrog detention center to a detention center # 3 of Kizel of the Perm region.
The stage lasted three days – from September 9 to September 11. Military Danilo said that he was traveling with a journalist in one train: “She went there, she was taken to the toilet. She was very thin, the bones themselves were already.”
In the detention center of the prisoners during the so -called acceptance, on September 11, the captives were bullied in every possible way.
“An hour or two was constantly beaten. They were given a minute to take a minute and started to beat again. For the” acceptance “twice lost consciousness. The women had cut down, it was heard how they cried,” Danylo said.
Prosecutor Taras Semkiv says that during the entire stay of Victoria Roshchina-since August 2023-the Russian Federation has never recognized that it was kept in places of label.
Know more: Victoria’s project. The history of captivity and torture that was survived by journalist Roshchina and thousands of Russian prisoners of Ukrainians
Prehistory:
- In March 2022, the Russian invaders were captured and kept in Berdyansk for 10 days.
- In 2022, Roshchina wrote a number of reports from temporarily occupied territories for the UP. In particular, about that What lives occupied Crimea in war lives, As a pseudo -referendum passed in the occupied Donetsk regionand showed Photo report from the destroyed Mariupol.
- In order to get into the occupied territory, Roschina left Ukraine to Poland on July 25. She planned to reach the occupied East of Ukraine through Russia in 3 days.
- Roshchyna disappeared on August 3, 2023 in the territory occupied by Russia, where she made a report.
- In May 2024, Russia for the first time acknowledged that she had detained Roshchina. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation sent a letter confirming her father, Vladimir Rochina.
- Russia delayed the return of the journalist’s body: he was repatched only in February 2025.
- In the office of the Prosecutor General reported that on the body of Rochina there were numerous traces of torture and ill -treatment: garden, hemorrhage, broken edge, signs of electric current.
- The investigative group confirmed that the body was brought to Ukraine after a opening conducted in Russia. The journalists learned from the interlocutors in the agencies that the Russians gave the body without part of the internal organs – the brain, eyeballs and parts of the trachea.
- International pathologian expert believes that this could have been an attempt to hide the true cause of death, including strangulation. On August 8, Victoria said goodbye in Kiev.