A woman in a Russian border city rejected a uniformed man’s advances. Two days later, she says, masked soldiers abducted her and demanded she confess to Ukraine ties.

A woman living in a major Russian border city says men in military uniforms abducted her, threatened to torture her with electric shocks, searched her phone, and demanded that she acknowledge possible ties to Ukraine. Two days earlier, she had rebuffed a serviceman who approached her in a parking lot.