“My entire body was pitch black, and I thought, maybe it's dirt? But those were bruises”
“I thought I would not get out, it was despair mixed with hatred”
“Black patches spread across my face – from the cold and the beatings”
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Before the war, Lyudmila lived in Novoazovsk, in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region. In 2014, when Russia-backed “separatists” seized the city of Donetsk and parts of the surrounding area, she began caring for orphaned children from a local boarding school. Lyudmila was arrested in October 2019, she was arrested and first did time in a special detention facility run by the DNR MGB then in Izolyatsia, and later in Donetsk Pretrial Detention Center No. 5. In total, she spent just over three years in custody. Lyudmila was released in a prisoner exchange in October 2022.
