Torture, false arrests: Ukrainian women in Russian prisons

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"You can cope with anything, just not being separated from your children. I'm carrying on for them," says Yulia Dvornichenko. She was arrested in 2021 and held in Russia, before Russia  launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For a long time, she was unable to speak of her ordeal but now she has broken her silence. Dvornichenko, who hails from Ukraine's Donetsk region, spent a year and a half in prisons operated by the so-called "People's Republic of Donetsk," This part of Donetsk came

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