By Lydia Doye, The Sun

VICTORIA Roshchyna, 27, was a Ukrainian journalist who reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Siege of Mariupol. 

Roshchyna won awards for her reporting – winning the Courage in Journalism Award in 2022.

The journalist vanished into Putin’s penal hell in the summer of 2023 while reporting in Ukraine’s occupied territories.

Former prisoners of war held alongside Roshchyna said she was detained in Energodar in Summer 2023.

Three days after being captured she was transported to Melitopol, where she was held captive for four months and subjected to ruthless torture.

In critical condition, she was then sent to Taganrog’s notorious SIZO-2 – where she was brutally murdered.

Roshchyna’s body was returned to Ukraine in a body bag, but her eyes, brain and even larynx were missing.

It was returned as part of an exchange involving 757 dead Ukrainians in February.

Her body bag was wrongly marked as “unidentified male” who had died of heart failure.

DNA testing later confirmed that the emaciated body, with a shaved head and broken neck bone, was Roshchyna’s.

Now, prosecutors have revealed that she likely suffered unbearable torture prior to her tragic death.