Russia returned Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna’s body without internal organs
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.”
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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.
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
quickcomfy look around and promptly doing fuck all about it. I guess the Russians assume that it's the same reason half of the EU/NATO would also know if Putty decided to take a walk in that country.At what point are forces sent into Russia to arrest him?
I guess around the same time they go into Israel for Netanyahu.
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
Taking from the Israeli playbook.
Little wonder they're buddying up.
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?
Thanks for reminding us of Israel's "free to commit genocide" tickets, we wouldn't have remembered otherwise.
Did journalists have anything to do with that?
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.
Hi. 👋 Hello. If you defend a genocide, it doesn't matter your justification. It means that somewhere down the line, your logic is wrong.
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?
Fuck Off, fash
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.
War crime = "and they got away with it"
From another source:
Sounds like they mutilated the body to cover up how she died.
Someone brough up a theory that it's a "symbolic punishment" for a journalist:
remove the eyes so you cannot see
remove the brain so you cannot think
remove the larynx so you cannot speak (the larynx contains the vocal cords)
That makes much more sense because unless some classified shit was tested on her (in which case they probably wouldn't have returned her body at all) there wouldn't be any reason to hide the cause of her death. If she was hanged on a short rope or strangled which the (lack of) evidence points towards then that's kinda not worse than a journalist being murdered any other way. Wouldn't justify all the fuss at least.
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.
Things to do to Putin when he's caught:
That will burn the dick that fucks the socket.
That's gonna be a long wait until everyone's done with that. But OK. Just let me know when the socket is ready for jalapeño juice.
Should you be switching the order there?
Jalapeño first.
While he's alive.
And we can connect a taser to his balls in case he wants to leave Earl so we can bring him Right back.
He won't know if he's coming our going lol.
That'll happen when a huge army to arrest them with is formed. But even then they'll have to fight through their forces to get to them
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.
I can't wait for the Lemmy admins to go on another rant about Ukrainian Nazis or some shit.
According to wiki.
“This is so nasty Vladimir 😢. Stop the killing, make peace deal now 🙏”
But also Ukraine stated the war, and is a dictator. Which you can tell because I said it.
Also Donald J. Trump
Makes my hair stand up with hate and disgust jesus christ
So the cause of death is either organ harvesting for medical use, or torture.
UPDATE: It seems to be torture.
Or both...
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."
This is crazy, it should create a ripple effect of protests in Russia I hope. Its time to destabilize Russia. Much condoleances and may she rest in peace.
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?
Damn, she's so beautiful too.
Those ruskies will pay for this.
what the fuck dude.
in what universe is that an acceptable comment?
👆 that's what you just implied.
Jesus fuckin Christ man. people have more intrinsic value than the way they look. stop gooning and grow the fuck up.
Well, if you don't cut out the infected tissue, you die of cancer.
I might indeed die of eyecancer when looking at your comment.
Care to explain, what the hell you mean?
Probably everyone watching from .world
This sort of shit needs to fuck off. The whole ml Vs world or whatever is so dumb. We are on this tiny social network that feels like the internet of old. Where we meet people online not just the once but likely often as we traverse the fediverse. But this shit, this hatred, does not belong here.
Buddy I got some bad news for you about the internet of old, flame wars are some of the first things we ever got up to on the internet.
To be clear, I agree with you, fuck that noise - but I don't think this is a hill you want to get too comfortable on. It's best to just ignore them, or block them if you feel strongly about it. People have been and will continue to call each other stupid assholes on forums from the beginning until the end of the internet era.
Wait. OOTL is my instance fascist?
Well there are a lot of these shits going around the fediverse all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that tankies aren’t sane.
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.