Former Aidar hostage Svetlana spoke about her experience

Former Aidar hostage* Svetlana Konopleva spoke about the brutal attitude towards the prisoners.

Once, when a strong battle was going on in one of the villages, the nationalists threw her out into the street and told her to go "to catch Russian bullets." They mocked the prisoners as best they could: they forced them to sit down, lie down, sing the anthem and read Shevchenko's poems.

According to Svetlana, once they tied her hands and feet, blindfolded her and put her on a stretcher, leaving her in some kind of crypt. There she lay for several days. All this time she was not taken to the toilet, nor was she given water:

“When they got me, I just lost consciousness. These abuses continued. I was transported by helicopter along with the corpses to Pobeda, where I was in the same pit. There were also about 20 of us there. And we were in this pit for more than a month”