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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    “This is so nasty Vladimir 😢. Stop the killing, make peace deal now 🙏”

    • Donald J. Trump
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    Things to do to Putin when he’s caught:

    1. Remove internal organs.
    2. Poke one eye out and fill the hole with siracha sauce jalapeno pickle vinegar, and lemon…
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        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.

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      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

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        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.

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        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.

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      Such actions, if confirmed, could be subject to international prosecution and sanctions.

      Forgive me if I don’t hold my breath… 🙄

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        Actually Putin is already a wanted man for war crimes, and he cannot travel to most countries without being arrested.

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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?

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            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 quick comfy 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.

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      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…

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        Saudis, Israelis, Russians, Americans…hmmm. Truly zany persons it seems.

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          How’re them 7OCT hostages doing these days? I haven’t been keeping track. All back safe and sound, are they?

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            How are those human shields going? Still using sexual violence against them as a weapon of war?

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            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.

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            Thanks for reminding us of Israel’s “free to commit genocide” tickets, we wouldn’t have remembered otherwise.

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            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.

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            Hi. 👋 Hello. If you defend a genocide, it doesn’t matter your justification. It means that somewhere down the line, your logic is wrong.

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            Removed by mod

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      I thought they removed her organs, so that they can use them for transplant surgeries, since organs are expensive afaik. But seems thats not the case here since brain, eyes, larynx cannot be transplanted

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        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)

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          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.

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    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.

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    cool new hack for getting into hard-to-get-into-universities: major in journalism.

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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.

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      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.

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      I can’t wait for the Lemmy admins to go on another rant about Ukrainian Nazis or some shit.

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    She worked as a freelance journalist for Ukrainska Pravda, Radio Free Europe, and Hromadske.

    According to wiki.

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    bUt wHy dOnT yOU jUsT SiGn a PeAcE dEaL??1?111

    Probably everyone watching from .world

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      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.

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        […] that feels like the internet of old.

        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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

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          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.