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SHE WAS ONLY 23. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS TORTURED HER, THEN EXECUTED HER IN BUCHA. Her name was Karina Yershova. She was 23 years old when Russian forces occupied Bucha in March 2022. She had already fled Russian occupation once before. In 2014, her family escaped from Donetsk, hoping to rebuild their lives somewhere safe. They settled near Kyiv. Eight years later, the same war caught up with her. Karina left home and never returned. Weeks later, her body was discovered in a mass grave near St. Andrew's Church in Bucha. The injuries described by her family were horrifying. Her fingernails had been torn away, her hands showed signs of burns, and she had suffered a gunshot wound to her leg. She had been shot in the head. Her family believed the injuries to her hands indicated that she had fought desperately against her attackers. According to a journalistic investigation, an elderly couple, Viktor and Natalia Mazokha, tried to help Karina. They, too, were killed by a Russian soldier. Karina was buried in a closed coffin. Her mother, Alyona, overwhelmed by grief, tried to force it open to see her daughter one last time. Relatives had to stop her. The condition of Karina's body was so terrible that her mother was denied even that final goodbye. Think about what this family endured. They lost their home in Donetsk in 2014. They fled to escape Russian occupation. They spent years trying to build another life. Then Russia invaded again, and their 23-year-old daughter ended up in a mass grave. This is what Russian occupation meant for Karina Yershova. Not liberation. Not protection. Torture, execution, and a mother standing over a sealed coffin, begging to see her child. Karina should have had decades ahead of her. Viktor and Natalia should have lived to old age. Instead, three lives were destroyed, and three families were left with grief that no passage of time can erase. Remember their names: Karina Yershova, Viktor Mazokha, and Natalia Mazokha. Those responsible for their deaths, including anyone who ordered or enabled these crimes, must face justice.