This is The Guardian.

Today, she set out to document Russia's secret network of prisons across Ukraine.

And then she ended up in one.

The story of Victoria, Rashina.

Before we start, this episode has some graphic descriptions of torture.

In July 2023, Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshina, her friends call herveika, set off on a trip, a dangerous

one that she had made a few times before.

This was, we think, the fourth time that she'd gone into occupied Ukraine since the full-scale

invasion.

You can't just cross the front line.

You can't just run under the machine guns and hop over the line.

So she took a really roundabout route.

Victoria crossed into Poland, then Lithuania, then Latvia, and from there into Russia,

where she planned to make her way towards a city in occupied Ukraine.

She was there looking for these things called black sites.

These basements, these garages, they're often known as, these torture chambers basically, used by the intelligence services, the FSB, to interrogate, to control, to coerce the local population.

She wanted to find these sites and she wanted to name the people responsible.

She was building a list of FSB officers. And then, after a few days, Victoria vanished.

The way her father keeps track of her in these situations is he checks, when's the last time

she checked into her Facebook messenger or her WhatsApp messenger

or signal group? And he notices that she hasn't checked in for a while. So he starts to raise

the alarm. For the past few months, a team of journalists around the world, including

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