Captured

Stories

Tortured into confession of a murder. How the Russian Investigative Committee fabricated the case of prisoner of war from 108th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion

“He Hoped Ukraine Would Bring Him Home.” Family of Kremlin Prisoner Hennadii Lymeshko Says a Russian Court Has Sentenced Him to Another Prison Term

“They Pulled Out a Gun and Said, ‘There Will Be No Lawyer.’” A Monologue by Leniie Umerova on Her Abduction and Unlawful Imprisonment in Russia

“Someone Must Always Be There to Help Her”: Russia Continues to Imprison Seriously Ill Aidar Veteran Kateryna Kuzmenko

“He Stood Firm and Defended His Rights”: Azov POW Who Refused to Admit He Was a Terrorist in a Russian Court Disappeared After the Verdict

From Maternity Leave to “Terrorist”: How a Russian Court Convicted Aidar Servicewoman Viktoriia Tkachenko for Serving in the Battalion

“Questions Like ‘Whose Crimea Is It?’ Were All I Heard for Ten Years.” Former Political Prisoner Andrii Kolomiiets on the Maidan, a Russian Prison, and the Basement at the Dariali Border Checkpoint

“Someone Like You Doesn’t Need a Lawyer.” Former Aidar POW Maryna Mishchenko on Olenivka, the Donetsk Pretrial Detention Center, and a Russian Court

“Antarctica’s Political Prisoner.” The Case of Crimean Ukrainian Biologist Leonid Pshenichnov, Detained by the FSB for Opposing Large-Scale Krill Fishing

“I’m a Soldier. I Was Carrying Out the Orders of the Ukrainian State.” Azov Fighter Sentenced to 20 Years in Russia Refused to Admit Guilt Despite Torture

“Putin’s Version of Ukrainian History Was Left on Me as a Scar on My Shoulder.” Maksym Butkevych on Captivity, a Sham Trial, and His Release

“They Performed Surgeries in Basements Under Shelling.” How and Why Russia Persecutes, Attacks, and Captures Ukrainian Medics in Violation of International Law