Captured

Stories

"They Beat Me for Every Ukrainian Word": The Story of Serhii Marchuk, a Soldier from Zhytomyr Region Released from Russian Captivity

36-Year-Old Soldier Serhii Shykun Returns Home to His Community in Zhytomyr Region from Russian Captivity

Russia Sends Boy from Makiivka to a Summer Camp in North Korea

Freed POW Volodymyr Trush on Execution Threats, Betrayal in Captivity, and His Determination to Keep Fighting

"There Were Beatings, Electric Torture, Strangulation, and Starvation": How a Chernihiv Resident Is Adapting After Russian Captivity

Captivity, Torture, and the Birth of His Son: The Story of Snake Island Defender Oleksandr Kurtiev

Former Russian POW Petro Nedokhodiuk on Memory Loss, Punishment for Prayer, and the Hardest Day of His Captivity

20 Months in Russian Captivity: The Story of Mariupol Defender Oleksandr "Demon"

Beatings, Psychiatric Abuse, and Electric Shocks to the Genitals: Three Years of Captivity for Marine Valentyn Polianskyi

Dreams of returning to a liberated Mariupol: Kira Obedinska on being wounded, deportation to the DNR, and the 'Future of Ukraine' award

Returned to Service Five Days After Being Released from Captivity

The Story of Artist Myroslava Kopcha from Berezhany, Who Was Killed in the War

"I Begged the Russians to Kill Me": The Story of a Servicewoman Who Survived Russian Captivity

"I Can't Cry": An Interview with Liudmyla Huseinova, Who Spent More Than Three Years in Russian Captivity

He Saw His Beloved One Last Time Before Dying from Torture: The Story of Former POW Valerii Zelenskyi

AFTER CAPTIVITY | Rehabilitation and Returning to Military Service

What Happened to Viktoriia Roshchyna: The Journalist's Torture, Captivity, and Death

"They Shocked Me Near My Heart": An "Edelweiss" Fighter on More Than Two Years in Russian Captivity

Captured at 19: The Story of Hlib Shumyl, Who Spent Three Years in Russian Torture Chambers

"I Can't Feel Joy the Way I Used To": A Vinnytsia Native on Three Years in Russian Captivity and Life After Returning

"I Wrote a Farewell Letter to My Parents": A Witness to Torture

"Every Transfer Was Abuse": Former POW Oleksandr Ivanov Recalls His Captivity While Recovering in Poltava

Captured on the Same Day as His Son: The Story of Border Guard Andrii Stepanov from Bukovyna

Flew into Besieged Mariupol and Spent Two Years in Captivity: The Story of HUR Fighter "Barrett" from Chernivtsi

More Than Two Years in Russian Captivity: The Story of Soldier Serhii Boichuk

"I Thought I Wouldn't Survive": Police Officer Tortured by Russian Forces

How to Survive, Save Fellow Soldiers in Prison, and Not Break: A Military Doctor from Zhytomyr on His Time in Captivity

"They Beat Me Day and Night": Teacher Taken to a Detention Center

A Dream of Seeing Her Son Meet His Father Kept Him Going: Border Guard Oleksii Turbal Returns Home to Zhytomyr Region from Russian Captivity

Tortured Over a Telegram Comment

Defender of Mariupol and Witness to the Olenivka Massacre: An Interview with an Azov Officer

After the Interrogations, I Spent Another Week Sitting in a Basement, Freezing, Starving, and Losing My Mind: The Story of a Preschool Teacher from Kherson

"I Was in the Hell of Olenivka": A POW Who Survived the Olenivka Attack Reveals New Details

"For a Year and a Half, We've Believed We'll Find Him": An Interview with the Family of a Missing Volunteer

Freed POW Alla Senchenko from Lutsk on Her Experience, Survival, and Ukraine's Future Victory

"We Were Held by Beasts, Not Humans": The Story of Military Medic Yurii Armash, Who Returned from Russian Captivity

The Story of a Woman from Kamianka-Dniprovska Who Spent Seven Months in Russian Captivity

The Story of Photographer Maksym Levin, Who Was Killed While Documenting the Consequences of Russia's Aggression in the Kyiv Region

Life After Russian Captivity: The Story of a Freed Military Medic

They Beat Me and Forced Me to Sing Their Anthem": The Story of Former POW Anastasiia Zaudalska

Grandma, can I call you mom? The story of a woman who crossed the borders of four countries for her grandson