Body bag number 757 was the last Ukrainian body to be handed over by Russia during a swap of fallen soldiers' remains in February.
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On the outside of the white plastic body bag was a small tag that said the remains were an unnamed male, but it turned out it was mislabelled.
Inside there was another tiny tag which said: "Roshchyna, V.V.".
Could this be the body of 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who had been detained in Russian occupied territory of Ukraine the previous year?
At first, it was impossible to tell.
"When her body was returned to Ukraine, it was so terribly mutilated that it was unrecognisable," Viktoria's former editor Sevgil Musayeva told the ABC.
"What I heard from witnesses in the prison in Perm Oblast [a region of Russia], was that she was brutally tortured by Russians in this prison.
"Only DNA expertise helped us to understand that it was Viktoria's body."
Forensic investigators identifying the young woman were faced with a confronting task.
"The Russians returned her body without internal organs, without a brain, without eyeballs, and without the trachea," Ms Musayeva said.
"They were trying to erase the evidence, they were trying to erase her."
The body weighed just 30 kilograms.
Now, her family and former colleagues are determined to do everything they can to ensure that Viktoria, or Vika as they called her, is not forgotten, and that those who contributed to her death are held responsible.
'Obsessed with journalism'
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Viktoria had been working as a freelance journalist for various news outlets including Ukrainian Radio, Ukrainska Pravda, Hromadske, and Radio Free Europe.
"She's the bravest journalist I've ever met in my entire career," Musayeva, who is the chief editor of Ukrainska Pravda, said.
"She was obsessed with journalism.
"For her it was a mission to cover people in the occupied territories because we had many discussions about, 'it is dangerous to go there, you have to stop because nobody can guarantee that it will be safe for you'… but she was really dedicated to her profession.
"She said, 'if you're not interested on this, I will find another platform. I just want to be there. I just want those stories to be shared among Ukrainians because we have to remember that our people still live in these places'."
Viktoria was first arrested by Russian forces in March 2022 while reporting in south-eastern Ukraine but was released after 10 days.
She was then captured again in August 2023 after travelling to the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine.
Anxious wait for news
Viktoria's relatives back in Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine had no idea what had happened to her and were beside themselves with worry.
"On August 15th she stopped contacting me, so we started searching for her everywhere, then we contacted Ukraine's Security Service which initiated an investigation," the journalist's father Volodymyr Roshchyn told the ABC.
For eight months he heard nothing.
Then in April 2024 he said he received a letter from Moscow's defence ministry saying his daughter "has been detained and is currently in the territory of the Russian Federation".
Four months later, a full year after she was taken, he heard her voice for the first time.
"I had a phone call from the Russian side asking us to persuade her to stop doing a hunger strike so they could release her, so I spoke to her and convinced her to stop the strike," Mr Roshchyn told the ABC.
The Russians did not hold up their end of the agreement.
Instead of including Viktoria in their next prisoner transfer with Ukraine, they emailed her father to say she had died on September 19.
A month later, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov issued a statement to say the Kremlin had "no information about the fate of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who, according to the office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, had died in custody in Russia".
Evidence of torture
Journalists in Ukraine, including the team at Ukrainska Pravda, have been speaking to as many witnesses in the Russian prison system as possible to try to find out what happened to their colleague and provide some answers to her family.
Information has been scarce and difficult to verify, but they were able to find out that Viktoria was moved between several detention centres during her time in captivity — some of which are notorious for torture and mistreatment.
After ceasing her hunger strike, she was supposed to be added to a prisoner transfer list, but was sent even further away from Ukraine.
"She started eating, but after she got her vitals stable again, she was transferred 3,000 kilometres deep inside Russia," Mr Roshchyna said he had been told.
"Vika was banging on the cell doors of all her cells, demanding investigators and justice — the conditions were devastating at all three prisons, where they kept her.
"[One] cellmate says that Vika was stabbed and electrocuted."
In April this year, Ukraine's prosecutor general confirmed the DNA testing results had revealed the tiny body included with all the fallen soldiers was indeed Viktoria Roshchyna.
Her father said he struggles to accept his daughter is gone, but added that he wants the heads of detention centres where his daughter was imprisoned to be held accountable.
Musayeva said the evidence of torture is undeniable and must be investigated.
"When we started to investigate Viktoria's last journey, we listened to all these stories about torture, about beatings, about physical pressure on people," she said.
"Sometimes it was impossible even to hear the stories, I couldn't breathe when I listened to the stories and to this evidence."
She said her news organisation will publish the names of the Russians they learn had a role in Viktoria's mistreatment.
"Russia is responsible for this crime because actually she was a journalist and journalism is not a crime," Musayeva said.
"She went to the occupied territories to work as a journalist and to cover the stories of those who live there. There were no reasons to capture her… there were not any official accusations against her from Russian side.
"They just kept her in captivity and they killed her."
Posthumous awards for Viktoria
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the death of Viktoria as a "painful and unjust loss".
He has awarded her the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine's highest awards, "for her unwavering belief that freedom will overcome everything".
Scott Griffen, the Executive Director of the International Press Institute (IPI), said the institute had recognised Viktoriia with another posthumous honour, a 2025 World Press Freedom Hero Award.
"Viktoria is someone who paid the ultimate price for her courageous investigative work on the Russian occupation of Ukraine," Mr Griffen told the ABC.
"She was one of the journalists who was willing to risk everything to tell these stories, and without her work, we would know a lot less."
Mr Griffen said that in recognising Viktoria the awards' selection committee was also "calling attention to the urgent plight of the than 20 journalists who are believed to remain unjustly imprisoned in Russia".
The IPI had also been tracking attacks and threats on Ukrainian and foreign journalists working in Ukraine.
He said there had been 15 journalists killed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion almost four years ago.
Viktoria's father said he would always be proud of his daughter.
"Her name is a symbol of strength, resilience, and bravery," he said.
