Roksolana Makar braved icy roads and drone strikes to interview a woman in Izium who said Russian forces tortured her.
Alla, 55, said she was beaten, electrically shocked, suffocated with a gas mask, and raped during 10 days of detention. 'I asked them to kill me because I couldn’t take it anymore,' she said.
Truth Hounds, Makar’s organization, lost U.S. funding after the Trump administration cut foreign aid. This hampers war-crimes investigations.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened over 230,000 war-crimes cases since 2022. The aid cuts could deny justice to victims.
Reuters tracked over $283 million in U.S. funding for war-crimes initiatives, with at least 40% terminated. Truth Hounds had to suspend projects.
Victims like Popovych demand accountability: 'It is important that everyone is punished.'
