Teacher from Ukraine’s Kharkiv dies in Russian custody in occupied Crimea. She was arrested while visiting her parents.
Oleksandra Kazarovytska (Kolesnikova), one of the founders of the Kharkiv-based language school “Professional,” has died in Russian-occupied Crimea, the school said on Facebook. The school said Russia “killed” Kazarovitskaya.
Oleksandra Kazarovytska, a teacher from Kharkiv, Ukraine, died while in Russian custody in occupied Crimea, the language school she co-founded reported on Facebook. According to the school, Russia "killed" Kazarovytska. She traveled to Sevastopol in the summer of 2026 to assist her parents in selling their apartment and relocating to Turkey, where she and her husband resided.
Russian authorities detained her after discovering she had been communicating with a volunteer since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Kazarovytska spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. Russian authorities claimed her death was due to suicide, a claim that journalists and human rights activists dispute, believing she passed away in one of two pretrial detention centers in Simferopol.
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