The twelve hooded men wanted what was in his electronic devices and documents and even tried to cut off his finger to try to access them. That is the shocking story of Elena Milashina, the Russian journalist attacked yesterday in Chechnya.

“They tried to count my finger to put on the iPhone, but since I didn’t get it, they stopped cutting,” she told the cameras. The journalist defends that they were not fans. “They knew their possibilities,” she adds.

As soon as you land at Chechnya They already noticed that they were persecuted. But they were not intercepted until they got into the taxi. “My hands were tied and Sasha was stabbed,” he recalls. They beat her with metal bars, shaved off her hair, and threw paint on her.

Milashina is known for her investigative reporting on Chechenai. Some about the LGTB collective. She already had to flee Russia in 2022 for doing her job. She did not want to end up like Anna Potikovskaya, also a journalist for Novaya Gazeta, who was assassinated in Moscow. It was precisely to that city that Milashina flew last night.

The journalist is hospitalized to recover from a concussion.