# Teacher from Ukraine’s Kharkiv dies in Russian custody in occupied Crimea. She was arrested while visiting her parents.

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/teacher-from-ukraines-kharkiv-dies-in-russian-custody-in-occupied-crimea-she-was-arrested-while-visiting-her-parents/
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:09:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T16:23:54+00:00
- Original publisher: Meduza
- Original article: 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
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- Kharkiv language school co-founder Oleksandra Kazarovytska died in Russian custody.
- She was detained during a visit to help her parents move.
- Colleagues say she spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial.

## Summary

Oleksandra Kazarovytska, a co-founder of a language school in Kharkiv, has died while in Russian custody in occupied Crimea. Her colleagues say she was detained during a visit to Sevastopol to help her parents move, raising concerns about the treatment of detainees and the circumstances of her death.

She had been living in Turkey with her husband and travelled to Crimea in summer 2026 to help her parents sell their apartment. Authorities reportedly detained her over correspondence with a volunteer since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and she spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. Officials reportedly attributed her death to suicide; journalists and human rights activists believe she died in a pre-trial detention centre in Simferopol.

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