A Ukrainian nurse was allegedly abducted and hung in the street by pro-Russian police after confronting Vladimir Putin's troops in the occupied Kherson region.
It is said Tetyana Mudrenko, 56, and her husband Anatoliy, 60, were abducted from their front garden last month and had their home ransacked by Russian collaborators.
Her twin sister Natalia Chorna, 56, said Tetyana - also known as Tanya - regularly scolded Russian collaborators and shouted "Skadovsk is Ukraine!" through the streets of the occupied town, according to the Financial Times (FT).
Natalia warned her sister to be quiet and told the disabled children's nurse to stop confronting Russian troops.
But Tanya confronted a group of Russian soldiers wearing balaclavas in the spring, it is believed.
Referring to Russian troops by a derogatory term, Natalia said: "She looked at the orc, right in his eyes and asked: ‘Why are you here? Will you shoot me?'"
In October, weeks after Tanya's stoic public rant, Natalia received a disturbing call from a witness who said her sister died after being dragged into the street and publicly executed.
Natalia said: "She told me that 'Tanya' was hanged. They poured something into her mouth and then hanged her in front of the courthouse."
It is understood the FT analysed and verified messages between Natalia and Tanya before the latter's death.
Anatoliy was later released from prison to bury his wife and showed signs of beatings and had a broken arm, Sun reports.
But he disappeared again and has not been seen or heard from since.
The morgue told Natalia her twin died from "mechanical asphyxiation" and sent her Tanya's a death certificate.
The Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR), a Ukrainian nonprofit, confirmed Mudrenko's cause of death in an October 19 post.
Natalia added: "In occupied Skadovsk, you can’t have your own opinion."
Kherson is the only regional capital that Moscow has been able to capture eight months after the start of the invasion.
