The brain was removed, the bones were broken, the head shaved, electrocked: who was Viktoria Rochan? The report states that Ukrainian journalist’s terrible end in Russian custody

When 757 Ukrainian military casualties were exchanged in a frozen forest in February, Red Cross officials noted a disturbed discrepancy: Body number 757 was recorded as “NM spa”, an unknown male, the cause of death which was listed as a heart failure.
Week later, forensic experts identified the corpse: this was Viktoria RushchinaA 27 -year -old Ukrainian journalist, not a soldier, was missing since July 2023.
A chilling report alleged that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchana was subjected to severe torture, while in Russian custody, his brain, broken bones, electrocution, drugs, starvation and other derogatory acts are included.
According to Guardian reports, Rochena was not just another victim of war. She was one of Ukraine’s most fearless civilian reporters, which was deeply surrounded by the documents of the crimes hidden to the Russian state. His last journey was a mission to highlight the secret detention sites and to expose the use of torture on citizens. Instead, she became one of their victims.
Kidnapping, knife marks, electric shock and starvation
On July 25, 2023, Rushchina crossed Russia through Latvia under her name, carrying a circuit route to reach Melitopol in the Zaporizhia region occupied in the Zaporizhia region. His phone soon became dark.
Witnesses now help to re -organize that horror.
He was first detained in Enerhodar for the first time after being spotted by a drone. After a brief holding at the local police station, he was taken to a torture site in Melitopol known as “The Garage” controlled by FSB.
According to a former selmet, the interrogators repeatedly subjected Rochan to electric shock, which was removed from the burn mark found on his feet during the body examination, and stabbed him in the hands and feet, including 3 cm deep puncture in his foreground. A 5 cm wound over his heel was encouraged, causing his special pain.
Rushchina allegedly begged her torturers not to reopen an old wound on her heel. They did not listen. “He said: ‘I begged him not to touch that wound,” the witness remembered. According to the report, his prisoners ignored his arguments. The witness said, “He said that a man, he called him a blow … cruel, ignored.”
Drug and broken in Russia
Later, Rushchina was shifted to SIZO-2, which is a notorious pre-trial detention facility in Taganogrog, Russia. The custody recalled that she arrived in drugs and disorientation. “She originally started going crazy,” said a witness. It wasoled, deprived of food, and deteriorated rapidly.
Barely weighing 30 kg, she could not lift her head without help. “I used to lift her up and she used to catch the top bed to pull himself up,” said her former Celmet.
Her hair was shaving, ribs broke, and abrasions covered her body. Eyewitnesses said that she was curling on the floor, hidden behind a curtain, fear and barely responsible. “Her eyes got nervous. She did not speak. She stopped eating,” said another prisoner.
Taganrog is infamous for its ways: prisoners are regularly electrocked, waterboard, and forced in prolonged stress conditions. Food parts were transported to four and a half teaspoons per plate. It was in these situations that Roshchana gradually kept hungry.
Signs of strangulation, missing organs
When his body finally returned, he bored the surefire signs of torture for a long time. Hyide bone in his neck – often broke in cases of strangulation – fractured. Severely, his brain, eyes and lords were missing, making it almost impossible to confirm the exact cause of death.
Ukrainian prosecutors say that mutation tries to hide the range of neurological or aspirations injuries.
He made only one call during his custody – four minutes for his parents, about a year after her disappearance. The last time someone heard his voice.
Authorities have opened one Investigation of war crimesBut prosecution may be elusive. Nevertheless, more than 50 interviews with the remaining and internal formulas have helped painting a terrible image of systemic misuse.
“She was trying to highlight properly,” said Seavil Mousiva Seville Mousiva, her editor of Ukrainka Pravada. “Vikatoryia had no personal life. His whole world was his mission.”