# Teacher from Ukraine’s Kharkiv dies in Russian custody in occupied Crimea

https://mins.news/en/item/131016

- Meduza, 2026-11-05 16:09 UTC
- World
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/05/teacher-from-ukraine-s-kharkiv-dies-in-russian-custody-in-occupied-crimea-she-was-arrested-while-visiting-her-parents

> Oleksandra Kazarovytska, a co-founder of Kharkiv language school Professional, died in Russian-occupied Crimea. She had traveled to Sevastopol to help her parents and was detained over correspondence with a volunteer, then held in solitary confinement for three months awaiting trial. Russian authorities attributed her death to suicide, while journalists and human rights activists believe she died in a Simferopol detention center.

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