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Inside Russia’s new gulag: what The New Yorker found in a Rostov cell of Ukrainian women

Summary by Meduza
Since 2014 — and especially since 2022 — Russia has seized and still holds at least 1,878 Ukrainian civilians. These are only the confirmed cases; the real number is likely far higher. At least 223 of them are women. Like Ukrainian prisoners of war, many civilian hostages from Ukraine have been tortured and are held in inhumane conditions. But unlike military prisoners, they have little hope of going free in an exchange. Ukraine, citing the Gene…

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In an extensive article, The New Yorker magazine told the stories of women from one cell of the Rostov detention center, whom the Kremlin accused of terrorism and treason. Two of them are an English teacher who sheltered a wounded Azovstal defender and a woman who was tortured in Isolation and then convicted on the basis of torture testimony. After 2014, and especially after the full-scale invasion of 2022, Russia captured and still holds everyt…

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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Meduza broke the news in Riga, Latvia on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
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