# 'Torment of Hell': Ukraine Medic Describes Russian Torture  ## About - Author: abc.net.au - Title: 'Torment of Hell': Ukraine Medic Describes Russian Torture - Tags: #articles #Favorites - URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-16/torment-of-hell-ukraine-medic-describes-russian-torture/101447668 ## Highlights Known to Ukrainians by the nickname Taira, Ms Paievska drew global attention after her body-cam footage was given to The Associated Press. She said a Russian asked her as he tortured her: "Do you know why we do this to you?"  She replied: "Because you can." --- Before she was captured, Ms Paievska recorded more than 256 gigabytes of harrowing body-cam footage showing her team's efforts to save the wounded. She got the footage to Associated Press journalists, the last international team in Mariupol, on a tiny data card. The journalists fled the city on March 15 with the card hidden inside a tampon, carrying it through 15 Russian checkpoints. --- Ms Paievska, who said she suffered headaches through her detention because a concussion from an earlier explosion, told politicians she asked her captors to let her call her husband, to let him know what had happened to her. "They said, 'You have seen too many American movies. There will be no phone call'," she said. Her tormentors would sometimes urge her to kill herself, she said. "I said, 'No. I will see what happens tomorrow,"' she said. ---