An international investigation has revealed that the body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, was returned to Ukraine missing several internal organs, potentially to conceal the cause of death.
According to a joint investigation by Forbidden Stories and 13 international media outlets, Roshchyna’s body was transferred to Ukraine on February 14, 2025, as part of a repatriation operation involving the return of 757 fallen Ukrainians. Russian documents marked the body, listed as number 757, as an “unidentified male” with a reference note: “СПАС.”
Such actions, if confirmed, could be subject to international prosecution and sanctions.
Forgive me if I don’t hold my breath… 🙄
Actually Putin is already a wanted man for war crimes, and he cannot travel to most countries without being arrested.
Pretty sure Florida and DC are back on his vacation list now
You say this like the US has any history of actually arresting war criminal dictators.
In reality they actually have a massive history of backing them and having them be their puppets, UNLESS they’re on Russia’s side. That last part no longer matters
Arrest? We now have a POTUS who will offer him room temp cheeseburgers and the location of every SSBN currently under dive, then claim it was a masterful business deal.
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Hungary has already hosted a wanted war criminal. And the US has threatened the ICC for doing their job. So maybe that’s two possible destinations for Vladimir?
Their home security IT system is a mosquito net made of paper with a post-it note saying ‘no hack pl0x’.
They had been caught letting the Russians take a
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At what point are forces sent into Russia to arrest him?
Yeah. Him and Bibi will stand trial on the same day.
“Achually, she was a journalist, not a prisoner of war. So we can fuck her shit up.”
- Russian propaganda, probably
Yeah? Is anybody going to do anything about it?
We know the answer.
I don’t know where you live, but I do know there’ll probably be a second front in this particular war in a not too far into the future. I have the feeling that the news channels in the US perhaps leave out some of what is happening in the Baltic sea, for example.
Or the fact that we’ve been preparing to go fuck them up for the past few years. The rest of Europe is starting to wake up as well. Nobody wants to be next.
I woNder whAt kind of Zany person commIts war crimes against journalists.
Saudis, Israelis, Russians, Americans…hmmm. Truly zany persons it seems.
All four of those track.
How’re them 7OCT hostages doing these days? I haven’t been keeping track. All back safe and sound, are they?
Did journalists have anything to do with that?
Thanks for reminding us of Israel’s “free to commit genocide” tickets, we wouldn’t have remembered otherwise.
Likely dead from ceaseless Israeli Occupation Force bombings. I don’t know for certain either, however, because the genocidal forces won’t let any neutral observers in. And in case you also haven’t been keeping track of how journalists fare in the region, they are regularly executed by Israeli snipers, thus unable to tell us more of the horrors playing out in Palestine.
Conditions will be the same for both those israelis and the Palestinian civilians. So ask yourself how the Palestinian civilians are doing and you’ll have your answer.
Israel killed them.
How are those human shields going? Still using sexual violence against them as a weapon of war?
Is an INAZI some new apple product?
iNAZI
Worst iCarly spinoff ever
You are totally right and Putin totally doesn’t give a shit.
Putin should be arrested and tried for genocide and war crimes the second he steps out of Russia, but since he’s apparently already dying I am afraid we’ll never have the pleasure of seeing the asshole in a little jail cell
Same for Netanyahu btw…
Add it to the list. Might take you a while to find the bottom.
Who wants to out down some money in when countries just stop following the Geneva Convention because it’s “a regulatory burden”? Price is Right rules closest without going over.
Literally President Trump has said that, I believe in his first term. Something about how there shouldn’t be rules in war, and whatever happens/whoever happens to be in the crossfire, happens.
Not surprised at all.
From another source:
The investigation revealed that upon examination in Ukraine, it was discovered that several internal organs were missing, including the brain, eyeballs, and part of the larynx.
According to the investigative team, the body showed signs of an autopsy conducted in Russia. An international expert suggested that the missing organs could have been removed to obscure evidence of death by strangulation or suffocation.
Sounds like they mutilated the body to cover up how she died.
I’m not sure what it says about them that they have this capacity to surprise me every time I heard what next depravity they did.
i wish this depravity from russia surprised me. they decapitated my friend’s dad
And this isn’t even the first time they’ve done this.
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Cannot wait for the strongly worded letter and the big story about Putin promenading himself in an ICC country next year.
Right? Laws and Rules of Engagement only have teeth when those whose role it is to enforce them actually fucking do so. We are failing so much on an international level and the future is looking pretty fucking bleak because of widespread cowardice to take action.
“This is so nasty Vladimir 😢. Stop the killing, make peace deal now 🙏”
- Donald J. Trump
But also Ukraine stated the war, and is a dictator. Which you can tell because I said it.
Also Donald J. Trump
She worked as a freelance journalist for Ukrainska Pravda, Radio Free Europe, and Hromadske.
According to wiki.
So the cause of death is either organ harvesting for medical use, or torture.
UPDATE: It seems to be torture.
Or both…
the Russians are known for poisoning people I would bet on that personally
People are disgusting.
"Investigators discovered that several organs were missing, including the brain, both eyeballs, and part of the trachea. According to an international forensic expert consulted by journalists, the absence of these organs could have been intended to obscure evidence of death by strangulation or suffocation. Remembering the Journalists Targeted and Killed by Russia in Ukraine
A bruise on Roshchyna’s neck indicated a potential fracture of the hyoid bone—a rare injury commonly associated with manual strangulation."
cool new hack for getting into hard-to-get-into-universities: major in journalism.
Common move from the isrealis where they take Palestinian posts to sell, but we want extra outrage when the Russians do it and we assume poisoning.
Be nice if we at least pretended to have some moral baseline between the two countries.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-admits-harvesting_n_399623
Does that hurt the journalist?
bUt wHy dOnT yOU jUsT SiGn a PeAcE dEaL??1?111
Probably everyone watching from .world
Wait. OOTL is my instance fascist?
No, but .ml does have a bunch of tankies who defend Russia or try to distract and muddy the water every time Russia does something abhorrent.
According to .ml, anyone even slightly right of outright communism should be considered fascist. .ml is one of the more extreme hard left instances, so comments from the instance should be taken with that in mind. It is very heavily censored, so their users only ever see the “China and Russia did nothing wrong” type of rhetoric.
.world has issues, for sure. It’s the largest instance, and that comes with its own issues. But it’s definitely not fascist.
Its the most popular instance, and at the same time they allow less than acceptable people
So, while not only having fascists, if they weren’t the biggest instance (which is just another sign of them just being completely against the philosophy of Lemmy and Decentralisation in general, since every normal instance would have just closed their sign-ups by now) they would be long gone
Do you live in some kind of alternate reality? I hang out on .world and any fascist sentiment here is downvoted into oblivion with a quickness. It’s further left than pre-IPO reddit.
If you don’t want daddy Stalin to rule you, you are a fascist.
