❤️HER NAME IS VIKTORIIA (VIKA) ROSCHYNA!❤️
Viktoriia (Vika) Roshchyna was tortured to death for exposing the truth.
The 27-year-old journalist was murdered last year, but only now are we learning about the reality of her final year alive.
She was abducted in August of 2023 near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which was held by Russian forces in that country’s war on Ukraine.
Vika spent one year in detention and was killed in September.
They sent her body back to Ukraine in a truck early this year. She lay alongside the bodies of 756 other Ukrainian military casualties.
The Russians marked her as ‘NM SPAS 757’.
The documentation said Vika was a man who had died with ‘extensive damage to the coronary arteries.
DNA testing has confirmed NM SPAS 757 is Vika.
The Russians removed her eyes, brain and parts of her trachea to conceal their torture.
Vika’s family learned about her death in a letter from Russia’s defence ministry.
That letter did not tell them she suffered extreme trauma.
Vika was uncompromising in her pursuit of the truth and exposing injustice.
In the months before her capture she exposed the murder of two teen boys who opposed Russia; and the intimidation of nuclear power station workers by Vladimir Putin’s regime.
She was captured while looking to expose Russian security operatives who were torturing locals.
“She was one of the bravest journalists I met in my career,” her colleague says.
Vika was raised in the same town where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew up. Her parents still live there.
Vika’s father refuses to believe she is dead – he continues writing to Russian authorities begging for her release.
REST IN POWER VIKTORIIA ROSCHYNA! ❤️
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