Captured

Stories

“We uncovered about 800 bodies,” — a serviceman recounted how the Russians forced prisoners to exhume civilian bodies in Mariupol

“I’m walking, blood flooding my boots”: how an Azov fighter survived captivity three times

Forced confessions, sentenced to life in Russia, and released from captivity: the story of an Azov fighter

Sviatoslav “Kalyna” Palamar on the Pokrovsk direction, the siege and exit from Azovstal, Olenivka, Lefortovo, and his time in Turkey

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

"The guys were burning, screaming, someone was torn in half." the Olenivka terror attack and life after it in the memories of azov fighters

“I remember the smell of burnt bodies and the glass wool falling on my skin like a thousand needles.” The story of Azov fighter “Kraft” who survived the Olenivka attack

A son and brother ‘reunited’ thanks to a YouTube video: how Russia hides Azov prisoners from the world

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

"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

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

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

Tork from the Azov Regiment on captivity: ‘They went berserk over the map of Ukraine on my chest

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