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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bel Trew

‘Every second felt like eternity’: Inside the torture chambers of Ukraine’s occupied northeast

Bel Trew

At night, when the street outside was quiet, Olga would hear the screams of women being gang-raped by Russian soldiers in the interrogation room one floor above her tiny squalid cell.

Together with her fellow female inmates, sleeping stacked side-by-side like cutlery in a drawer, she would try to block out the terrifying sound.

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