Tyra told the US Helsinki Commission on torture and terror of Russian occupiers

The diplomat emphasized that Tyra's testimony is very important for Russia to justice for crimes and to intensify the efforts to release captive defenders of Ukraine and civilians, whom the aggressor country retains in violation of all international norms.

Video of the Day "It was a very powerful speech with the truth about the horrors of the Russian blockade of Mariupol and the three-month stay in inhumane conditions in captivity of the occupiers, unlimited cruelty , to help us protect not only Ukraine, but the whole civilized world, ”Markarova said.

According to The Guardian, Taira listed the Helsinki Commission some of the atrocities, whose witnessed in Mariupol and in captivity: “Pregnant captives whose fate is not known to their relatives or the state. A fighter who was beaten for three hours and then thrown into the basement like a bag. And only a day to him came to him. A dead baby is on the mother's hands. A seven -year -old boy with ball wounds dies with my arms, because this time I could not save him.

Prisoners in their cameras scream for weeks and die from torture without any medical care. A city with half a million population died in my eyes under methodological, planned air strikes. Air Force for hospitals and residential quarters. The hospital, crowded with wounded soldiers and civilians, where the painkillers and antibiotics will end. Soldiers and all the medical staff sleep for two to three hours a day, because the operations take place one by one.

Police are taken out of the rubble of mutilated women and children. People pick up water from the puddle. Looted houses. Dogs who were once domestic are pulling human extremities in the city. The prisoners whom the killers were forced to undress before you slowly kill them . . . One of those who tortured me, asked, "Do you know why I do it with you?" I replied, "Because you can.