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‘Doctor Evil.’ The doctor who tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war in one of the most secretive colonies in Mordovia (investigation)
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2025
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Volodymyr Yukhymenko
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Valentyn Polianskyi
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Andrii Pronin
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Yulian Pylypei
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Nikita Pikulyk
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Oleksandr Kiriienko
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Pavlo Afisov
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Oleksandr Savov
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Crimean resident Bohdan Ziza: “Write to political prisoners — it’s absolutely vital!”
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2025
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Bohdan Ziza
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“You’ve got partisans on your hands.” How a Crimean resident challenged Russia
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2025
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Women Released from Captivity Speak Frankly About the Violence They Endured: Four Stories
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2025
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CRSV
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Oksana Herasymenko
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Forced confessions, sentenced to life in Russia, and released from captivity: the story of an Azov fighter
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2025
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Russian Captivity, Combat Missions, and the Death of His Wife: The Story of Former POW ‘Khamzat’
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2025
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Yevhenii Kravchuk
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Neighbors reported them. 280 days of family captivity: abuse and blackmail
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2025
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Olha Chernyak
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30 Months in Russian Captivity: War, Torture, a Blog, and a Book About Prisoner Life. The Story of a Former POW
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2025
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Volodymyr Sorochan
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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'
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2025
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Nataliya Shylo
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The horrors of Russian captivity: the story of Snake Island defender Vladyslav Zadorin
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2025
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Zmiinyi
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Vladyslav Zadorin
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“He took the horrors of Bucha very hard.” The story of Crimean resident Bohdan Ziza, sentenced by Russia for “terrorism.”
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2024
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Bohdan Ziza
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Survived captivity and spoke out: what Russian forces do to prisoners of war.
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2024
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Yurii Armash
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After captivity — without arms and legs. A Ukrainian soldier learns to live and dreams of driving again
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2024
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Vyacheslav Levytskyi
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The first exchange of women: what happened to Ukrainian servicewomen in Russian captivity.
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2023
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Olenivka
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Iryna Stohniy
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Nataliia Fiialova
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A Marine from Zmiinyi: captivity, interrogations about the “Russian warship,” and Bandera
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2023
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Yurii Kuzminskyi
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‘They made me stand in front of a pit with corpses.’ The story of a Kherson resident’s week in Russian captivity
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2022
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Ihor Bondarenko
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“I heard them carrying out bodies”: an ATO veteran from Kherson recounts how he survived captivity by Russian occupiers
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2022
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Maksym Nehrov
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'A week in the basement, starving and losing my mind' – a childcare worker from Kherson on her captivity during the occupation
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2022
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Olena Naumova
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