Occupied Ukraine survivor

Olena Yahupova lived in Enerhodar when the Putin forces captured it. Perhaps because her husband is a Ukrainian officer — no other plausible explanation is mentioned — the Putin forces tortured her for days, then put her in prison for months.

Then they forced her to dig ditches and tell lies on camera. Then an officer in the Putin forces decided to release her and apparently gave orders that permitted her to go to Russia and from there to Estonia.

Some of the events in this story are puzzling — I can't see explanations for what some Russians did. But that doesn't mean they didn't do them.