A UKRAINIAN mother has told of her harrowing gang-rape by 15 Russian militants who also threatened her 5-year-old daughter’s life.
Natalija Vlasova, born in 1981, was tortured and sexually abused by a group of Russians who kidnapped her in the Donbas region of Ukraine in 2018.
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Natalia Vlasova, center, claims she has been tortured and raped by Russian militants since she was arrested in 2018. Credit: Media Institute for Human Rights
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Vlasova told how her teeth were sharpened by Vasyl Yevdokimov – a key figure in Russia’s secret Izolyatsia torture prison (pictured)Credit: Facebook
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A cell in Izolyatsia prison, where prisoners claimed that Russian captors tortured and electrocuted them Credit: Telegram/traktorist_dn
She told her harrowing story to a Russian court at a trial where she was sentenced to 18 years in prison on “absurd” terrorism charges.
Natalia’s testimony is the latest in a long line of accusations against Russian soldiers for using sexual violence as a weapon of war.
She recalled the sickening series of torture methods she was subjected to, including grinding her teeth and electrocuting her “until she screamed loud enough” to satisfy her attackers.
She identified Vasily Yevdokimov, also known as “Lenin”, as one of the ringleaders – a key figure in Russia’s secret Izolyatsia torture prison.
She said that Yevdokimov himself “came down.” [her] teeth with a nail file,” inserted a “bottle” into her body and subjected her to other unfathomable sexual violence.
The scarred mother said her attackers were pure maniacs and that most people would not enjoy mutilating a naked, bound woman.
After torturing her in every possible way, Natalya’s captors tied her hands with her hands up in a small area and made her stand like that all night in the cold.
She spoke of a systematic gang rape by fifteen men at one time.
The beasts also claimed to know where her five-year-old daughter, Yulia, went to nursery – and taunted that they would send the toy captive to kill her.
Russian forces have long been accused of using rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war to intimidate and oppress their chosen enemy.
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Allegations of mass rape emerged from Putin’s ongoing February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Natalija told her harrowing story in court, but the testimony was “completely ignored” by Russian judge Oleg Aleksandrovich Cherepov, known for his willingness to impose sentences that the Russian state wants.
Natalia has just been sentenced to 18 years in a Russian prison after being found guilty of terrorism and plotting to kill Yevdokimov, her main torturer.
The only evidence that supported the charges against Natalia was a video confession extracted while she was being tortured, which she later retracted.
The Kharkiv group for the protection of human rights described the trial as a “legal absurdity”.
Natalia was tried in Russia in June 2023 along with two other Ukrainians, Serhiy Hruzinov and Viktor Shidlovsky, accused of participating in a terrorist organization.
It is not clear which terrorist organization the three are accused of participating in.
The three were sentenced on December 24, 2024, when Hruzynov received 20 years and Shydlovsky 22 years in prison.
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Izolyatsia, an allegedly secret prison located in a former nuclear bunker in eastern Ukraine
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An iron bar door at the end of a corridor of cells at the alleged Russian torture prison in Kupianska Credit: Ian Whittaker – News Group Newspapers Ltd
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The Sun team was given exclusive access to a Russian torture chamber in the city of Kupiansk, Ukraine in 2022 Credit: Ian Whittaker – News Group Newspapers Ltd
Previous stories about the Izolyatsia prison in Donetsk confirm Natalia’s story.
2021 Ukrainian Ruslan Zakharov (31) claimed he was taken to the basement of the facility after being accused of spying against Russia in 2019.
He then told the Telegraph: “[The electrocution] it shakes you all up; half your body goes numb.
»You think they will kill you: you feel helpless. You think you are alone and that no one will save you.”
Izolyatsia – which means “isolation” in Russian – was a factory before it was turned into an alleged torture chamber in 2014.
Survivors of the prison claim that the prisoners were left on hangers, doused with water and forced to fight each other.
The men and women in prison sued Russia and Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights.
Ruslan said that the kidnappers will hit him with a live wire while “beating the truth out of him.”
He added that he was taped and electrocuted on a table, and that he was forced to stand in the cell with his face against the wall and his arms stretched above his head.
Ruslan and his mother had to pay more than £10,000 before he was released at the end of October 2019.
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Beds in the Kupianska torture chamber Credit: Ian Whittaker – News Group Newspapers Ltd
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