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Following the 2022 invasion, thousands of civilians were arrested in Russia-occupied Ukraine, and many of them faced grueling conditions while they were detained. The Reckoning Project documented the stories of five of the Ukrainian women that leaned on each other to survive Russian detention. Not all of them did.
The stress, deprivations, and trauma suffered by Ukrainian civilians living in frontline, and occupied towns and cities, have been having a lasting impact on their health, with a yet unknown number meeting an untimely death, according to Inna Kubai, a Researcher at the Reckoning Project