Today, 295 people are held hostage in Moscow-controlled Donbas, 30 of them are women, Media Initiative For Human Rights reports. Behind these numbers, are individual stories. Innocent people are taken hostage regardless of age, gender, and state of health. Human Rights Watch communicated four known cases of arbitrary detention and torture of women in Russia’s marionette “Donetsk people’s republic” (or “DNR.”) They are now experiencing serious health issues. One of the women is in her sixth month of pregnancy. Euromaidan Press now tells their stories.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Yuliia Rudenko: Pregnant, tortured, seriously ill in Donbas
An armed pro-Russian separatist stands guard in the village of Spartak near the airport of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on April 10, 2015.
