Captured

Stories

Torture, exile, and escape across the front line. How a Ukrainian lawyer broke free from occupation after imprisonment in an FSB torture chamber

In the Taganrog detention center, in front of the guards, Viktoriia Roshchyna tried to cut her veins in order to get a psychologist brought to her, according to testimony from a person released from captivity.

‘If You Don’t Tell Me Everything, I’ll Rape Your Sister-in-Arms’: Marine on Brutal Torture of Women in Russian Prisons

ATO, “Azov,” 11.5 months in captivity, and a return to service: the story of combat medic from Uzhhorod, Halyna Zaitseva

Archipelago of Torture, or How Russians Abuse Ukrainian Prisoners. Testimonies

Women Released from Captivity Speak Frankly About the Violence They Endured: Four Stories

The story of a teacher rescued from captivity in the occupied territory by the Main Intelligence Directorate: '20 years in prison or the death penalty'

“Relatives said: people like you should be wiped out.” The story of a woman who survived torture chambers and escaped twice from occupied Mariupol

“Stripping, rape, and ‘entertainment’ in the sauna: a conversation with a human rights defender about sexual violence and the path to punishing Russians

Freedom of speech in the occupied territories: repression and new mechanisms of pressure in 2025

“Even darker horrors unfold in the torture chambers”: Azovstal defender “Nava” releases a book about captivity

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

“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

Torture and ‘Terrorism’ Cases: The Story of Mariupol Volunteers Released from Captivity in Olenivka

She returned in her ninth month of pregnancy: the story of a medic released from Russian captivity

'A week in the basement, starving and losing my mind' – a childcare worker from Kherson on her captivity during the occupation

“In that hell, she said goodbye to life more than once.” The story of a woman who returned from Russian captivity

189 days of captivity of a military medic and what came before and after. The story of Olena Kryvtsova