Claims of a Ukrainian ‘torture chamber’ went viral. What really happened?
Al Jazeera · Mansur Mirovalev ·
A woman who claimed that men were being violently assaulted in a house for evading the draft has been arrested.
A woman who claimed that men were being violently assaulted in a house for evading the draft has been arrested.
Petropavlivska-Borshchagivka, Ukraine – A woman wearing a crisp new paramedic’s uniform and impeccable makeup kneels on the ground in front of several police officers guarding the rusty gates of a two-storey house. She begs, yells and curses, claiming that four forcibly conscripted men are being held in the building in the tranquil suburb of Petropavlivska-Borshchagivka, outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
One of the men has already died, claims the woman, who was later identified as Valentyna Moloda, a 49-year-old nurse who once worked at a plastic surgery clinic and has never been authorised to practise as a paramedic.
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