Putin returns mutilated body of female Ukrainian reporter with eyes & brain MISSING after her torture by Russian captors

SICK Putin has returned the disfigured body of a tortured Ukrainian journalist - after Russian pawns removed her brain and eyes.

Award-winning reporter Viktoria Roschyna, 27, was brutally beaten to a pulp in occupied Ukraine where she was being held as a prisoner of war.

Vile Vlad's troops sent a body bag to Ukraine, marking the corpse as an "unidentified male".

But DNA testing confirmed the emaciated body - with her head shaved and a neck bone broken - was Roshchyna's.

Ukrainian authorities confirmed there were "numerous signs of torture and cruel treatment".

Investigators also found burn marks on her feet, likely traces of electric shock.

She suffered a broken rib according to local media.

Her eyeballs, brain and parts of her larynx were missing.

Her internal organs were likely removed in a crude attempt to hide the horrifying torture which she was subjected to - a common practice in Russia.

An expert told Important Stories: "The larynx can be important evidence in cases of strangulation.

"When a person is strangled, the hyoid bone [in the neck] is often broken. 

The expert continued: "Haemorrhages can be found in the whites of the eyes, and oxygen deprivation can be detected in the brain."

Tragic Roshchyna vanished into Putin's penal hell in 2023 while reporting in Ukraine's occupied territories.

Ex-POWs held alongside Roshchyna said she was detained in Energodar in summer 2023.

Three days after being captured she was transported to Melitopol, where she was held captive for four months and subjected to ruthless torture.

In critical condition, she was then sent to Taganrog's SIZO-2 - an infamous site which has been dubbed a "concentration camp".

A former inmate seemed to disagree and said: "Even the word ‘concentration camp’ would be too mild for SIZO-2."

She had fevers, her menstruation stopped, and she suffered from abdominal pain.

Yet the heroic reporter rejected her captors, and reportedly told guards "I will never cooperate with you".

Roshchyna worked for digital media organisation Hromadske TV among other outlets.

She will go down as another tragic victim of Vladimir Putin's meatgrinder war in Ukraine - which also took the life of a 12-year-old girl over Monday night.

It comes as mad Vlad's top TV puppet blasted Donald Trump in a bile-filled rant and vowed more slaughter in Ukraine, days before Russia's own ceasefire is due.

Vladimir Solovyov revealed Putin's intention to keep killing, abandoning the pretence that Russia supports Trump's peace mission.

Meanwhile, Zelensky hailed the "liquidation" of Russian generals by Ukraine's spies after one was blown up by a car bomb in a suspected Ukrainian hit.

Russian military head Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik was pulverised by a car bomb in Moscow last week.

Terror drone attacks continued to ravage Ukraine.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region a 12-year-old girl was killed, and other children were pulled alive from the rubble following a devastating strike.

A six-year-old girl and two adults were wounded in the attack.

And in Kyiv, a three-storey recreation centre was burned to the ground by a strike, leaving one woman injured.

Last week, The Don blasted Putin for "stringing him along" hours after historic peace talks with Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky and Trump were pictured meeting for the first time since their historic White House spat just before Pope Francis' final farewell.