Marina Yurchak is a 40-year-old environmental chemist, who has been held hostage in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ (DPR) for two and a half years. Her ordeal began with almost a year spent in ‘Izolyatsia’, the militants’ secret prison which former inmates refer to as a concentration camp. While officially ‘sentenced’ to 15 years for ‘spying’, it seems she was also accused of ‘insulting’ top militants, whose vehicles she refers to as ‘orc-mobiles’.
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An armed pro-Russian militant stands guard at a barricade outside the village of Shchastya near the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk on May 14, 2014.
