Natalia Chorna, the sister of the deceased woman, told media that on October 15, a woman called her and said that the Russians had publicly executed Tetiana.
“She told me Tanya was hanged,” Chorna recalled.
“They poured something in her mouth and then hung her in front of the courthouse.”
Chorna called the local morgue to confirm her sister’s death, but the staff refused to talk to her. Later, Natalia received Tetiana’s death certificate, which listed the cause of death as “mechanical suffocation” — a medical term used to describe some physical force that prevents people from breathing, such as rope tied tightly around their necks.
According to media reports, in early October, Mudrenko criticized the treacherous Ukrainian police forces in the city for siding with the Russian occupiers, yelling at them: “Skadovsk is Ukraine!”
Some time later, Mudrenko and her husband, 60-year-old Anatoliy Orekhov, were kidnapped from the yard of their home by cooperating police officers, according to Chorna and local eyewitnesses.
Neighbors claimed that Russians searched Mudrenko’s house and then stole their car and bicycles.
According to eyewitnesses, the Russians later released Orekhov from captivity and had him bury his partner’s body. His arm was broken and there were other traces of beatings on his body. Then the man disappeared again and no one has seen him since.
The Financial Times saw Tetiana’s death certificate and heard testimonies from locals confirming Natalia Chorna’s story. However, the media was unable to independently verify some details of the nurse’s death, as these events took place in areas inaccessible to Western journalists.
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