💰 A 26-year-old Ukrainian woman described being tortured with electric shocks and hammers while held in Russian captivity for 6 months: 'They treated us like animals'

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A Ukrainian soldier who returned home last week after a large prisoner swap described the torture she and other women received at the hands of Russian forces during her six months in captivity.Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office, said it was the first all-female prisoner exchange since the war began in February.Hanna was taken captive while serving in Mariupol as part of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade, Ukrinform reported.She was among the Ukrainian service members who surrendered in May after being trapped in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol for weeks as Russian forces surrounded and bombed it.After Russian forces were pushed out of Izium last month, an Associated Press investigation identified ten sites in the city in which Ukrainians, including civilians, had been tortured."

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