The occupiers have been illegally detaining a teacher from the Chernihiv Region, Victoria Andrusha, for almost six months

Victoria Andrusha is a teacher of math at school No. 5 in Brovary. She was abducted by the Russian military on March 25, 2022, from her home in the native village of Stary Bykiv, Chernihiv region.

Currently, it is known about Victoria that, most likely, she is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Russian city of Kursk.

The Russians detained Victoria for transmitting the movement of Russian equipment to a chatbot.

According to witnesses, the Russian military broke into the house, started looking for weapons, then took the phone and checked it. After that, they declared that Victoria was a gunner and destroyed many of their comrades because of her. To this, Viktoria replied that no one had called them here and that she was passing on data about their movement to the Armed Forces.

After that, with the help of 15 soldiers, the Russian military managed to detain one brave Ukrainian girl, who refused to communicate with the occupiers in Russian.

It is certain that the Ukrainian prisoners last saw her on March 27 in the basement of the club in the village of Novy Bykov and heard how the Russian military said that she would be taken for a prisoner exchange or tried according to the laws of the Russian Federation.

It is also clear that the Russians took off her gold jewelry because of the threat of the jewelry posed to the occupiers.

At the time of her enforced disappearance, Victoria was wearing a short brown fur coat, a brown hat, warm black pants (leggings), and black “Uggs,” which had metal hardware on the back. Under the fur coat was a blue fleece jacket, and she had a black backpack.

Unique signs of Victoria. On the middle finger of the right hand is a tattoo in the form of an infinity sign measuring 1-1.5 cm.

Later, on June 13, the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch called on the Russian authorities to release Victoria Andrusha.

At the time, the human rights organization reported that Viktoria Andrusha’s family learned from unofficial channels a few weeks after her arrest that she was being held in a detention center in the Kursk region of Russia.

At the same time, the detention center administration denied her detention there, and the woman’s lawyer, Victoria Biryukova, was denied access to the pretrial detention center.
Human Rights Watch stated that Victoria Andrusha is a victim of enforced disappearance. Russia should urgently recognize her detention and provide information on her whereabouts and legal grounds for arrest.

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