She came to Crimea to visit her parents: Kharkiv teacher Oleksandra Kazarovytska died in Simferopol pretrial detention center. PHOTO
Oleksandra Kazarovytska, the 44-year-old co-founder of Kharkiv's Profesional language school, died in a pretrial detention center in Simferopol in annexed Crimea.
This was reported by the Profesional language school on its Facebook page and by Russian outlet iStories, Censor.NET reports.
What is known
"Russia killed her. Sasha was an incredibly warm and talented person. A true teacher and mentor, she never stopped developing her own skills and sincerely celebrated every student's achievements," her colleagues said.
She reportedly traveled to Sevastopol this summer for no more than a month to help her parents sell their apartment and move. Sasha was supposed to return home in September.
"She was detained there. They found her correspondence with a volunteer dating back to the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Then three months in solitary confinement. Awaiting trial. And then 'suicide.' Sasha never returned home," the post reads.
It is unknown what she was accused of.
Buried in Sevastopol
She was pronounced dead on October 25, and her funeral took place in Sevastopol on November 4. According to the Russian authorities' account, Oleksandra died by suicide.
She is survived by her daughter Alisa and her husband Oleksii.
Oleksandra's friend Iryna Salnyk wrote that Kazarovytska had formally retained Russian citizenship and wanted to arrange paperwork in Crimea. Before crossing the border, she cleared her phone but failed to delete one chat.
