How Putin punishes critics and why Blaha and Fico stay silent

I listened to Ukrainian journalist Anzhela Slobodian as she spoke about the psychological terror she endured during approximately a month of Russian captivity. Today, she is free, but her weeks in Russian detention have left their mark.

Before being branded a traitor by the Russian regime, she worked as a reporter for TV Telethon in Kherson, striving to deliver news even after the occupation began. Russian soldiers burst into her flat, threw a bag over her head, and dragged her to a place she refers to only as a torture chamber. She was held in cell no. 6 and recalls hearing the screams of men being tortured with electricity. One of her fellow inmates died of a stroke, and her male colleagues were also physically tortured.