Un insegnante di matematica e scienze è stato picchiato e sottoposto a scosse elettriche dagli occupanti. È sopravvissuta e spera di tornare a casa, anche se il suo villaggio è in rovina.

Halyna Hlobchasta worked as a math and physics teacher in her native Makiivka for over 30 years. She was also elected as Village Head and volunteered and supported the Ukrainian army until March 3, 2022, when Russian forces entered her village.

“There was a loud rumble for about an hour, signaling the arrival of heavy equipment. Russian soldiers entered houses, and people hid. The streets were deserted,” Halyna recalls. Later that day, Russian military vehicles appeared in the village, and house-to-house searches began. Soldiers came to her door and took her for questioning.

“They asked me, ‘Are you Ukrainian?’ I said, ‘Yes, you can check my passport.’ Then they demanded to know where the border guards were. I told them they had left, but I didn’t know where,” she recounts.

On April 12, Russian soldiers returned for her. She was interrogated and tortured throughout the day. Taken to a school, she was beaten with electric shocks and batons and accused of sabotage.

“They brought me to the teachers’ lounge. A man called ‘Lobzyk,’ a Kadyrovite, sat at a table with two others. My eyes were blindfolded,” Halyna describes. “They laid me on the floor and began beating me. First, my arm—my elbow—and then they lifted my sleeve and applied something to my skin. Then came the electric shocks, three times to my arm. It was painful, but I stayed silent. Then they applied electric shocks to my back—it hurt so much I screamed. After that, they beat me with a baton.”

The soldiers threatened her life and brought her husband, forcing them to say goodbye.

“They said, ‘Say goodbye to her; we’ll let you go, but we’ll shoot her.’ On my knees, I said goodbye and begged my husband not to abandon my blind mother. Then they started looking for flags. They emptied a bag in front of me containing flags and ribbons, which they trampled on,” Halyna recalls.

Eventually, she was released. Halyna and her husband decided to flee occupied Makiivka.

Now living in Lviv Oblast and renting a one-room apartment, Halyna works remotely as the Village Head of her community. Despite her village being in ruins, she dreams of returning home.

“I really want to go back. There’s nothing left to return to, but I still want to. I believe, because if you don’t believe, what’s the point of living?”

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I hope she makes a full recovery in every sense, that has to be something intense to go through. I hope the future holds good things for her and her family.