A teacher from Makharkov died in a Russian pretrial detention center. She was arrested when she arrived in Crimea to visit her parents in Crimea annexed by the Russian Federation. The co-founder of the "Professional" Kharkiv Language School Alexandra Kazurovitskaya (Kolesnikova) has died, the school said on Facebook. The post says that Kazurovitskaya was "killed by Russia". According to colleagues, in the summer of 2026 the teacher arrived in Sevastopol to help her parents sell their apartment and move to Turkey. Kazurovitskaya and her husband lived there recently. The teacher was arrested: it was found that she was corresponding with a volunteer "from the beginning of the full invasion". Kazurovitskaya spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. According to colleagues, the Russian authorities called the teacher's cause of death suicide. Journalists and human rights activists claim that Kazrovitskaya died in one of two pretrial detention centers in Simferopol.

A teacher from Makharkov died in a Russian pretrial detention center. She was arrested when she arrived in Crimea to visit her parents in Crimea annexed by the Russian Federation. The co-founder of the "Professional" Kharkiv Language School Alexandra Kazurovitskaya (Kolesnikova) has died, the school said on Facebook. The post says that Kazurovitskaya was "killed by Russia". According to colleagues, in the summer of 2026 the teacher arrived in Sevastopol to help her parents sell their apartment and move to Turkey. Kazurovitskaya and her husband lived there recently. The teacher was arrested: it was found that she was corresponding with a volunteer "from the beginning of the full invasion". Kazurovitskaya spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. According to colleagues, the Russian authorities called the teacher's cause of death suicide. Journalists and human rights activists claim that Kazrovitskaya died in one of two pretrial detention centers in Simferopol.