Captured

Stories

“I sometimes think of Oleksiy, ill and captive. Hope lingers, faint but alive.” — Remembering the Azov Soldiers Lost in Olenivka

"Azov" and "Azovstal, captivity, Olenivka, torture in a detention center, the exchange, and the first tiramisu in freedom — Svitlana Vorova (call sign ‘Hrazia’) speaks in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda about 11 months of Russian captivity.

We were given three books. One of them always had to be written by Lenin”: Azov fighter Yaroslav on Mariupol, captivity, and freedom

“They told my mother that I am an enemy of the people,” – the story of the head of the Dvorichanska community, who spent nearly three months in captivity

“Now I will live for two”: the love story of Valeriia and Andrii, who married in a bunker at Azovstal

Unbreakable: the story of a Kharkiv woman who, at 70, ended up in a Russian occupation basement prison

“There, on the little star – Kyrylo”: a mother’s story of surviving captivity and losing her soldier son

The first exchange of women: what happened to Ukrainian servicewomen in Russian captivity.

“They don’t consider you a human being”: stories of women who survived Russian captivity.

A Marine from Zmiinyi: captivity, interrogations about the “Russian warship,” and Bandera

“Not forgetting is not enough. I ask you to speak”: a wife’s story of an Azov fighter who survived the Olenivka attack.

“I Cannot Do Otherwise”: the Life of a Ukrainian Soldier Before His Execution in Captivity