Former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolaienko returned to Ukraine on Aug. 24, 2025, after spending nearly three and a half years in Russian captivity. After…
Volodymyr Mykolaienko immediately after returning from captivity. Telegram channel of Kherson Oblast Military Administration Head Yaroslav Shanko
“The Russians expected to be greeted with bread and salt, but the reception was different”
“Either you work with us or you go into the pit”
“From below the waist to the tips of his toes, it was all one big, nasty bruise”
“There’s a lot of Russianness there, but no Orthodoxy”
Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’
As part of peace talks in 2025, Russia and Ukraine carried out two large-scale prisoner exchanges. However, Ukrainian civilians…
Dmytro Chorny tells of hunger, beatings and torture before a mass prisoner exchange freed him to go home to – and marry – his…
The 33-year-old National Guard serviceman, identified only as Vladislav, was captured earlier this month near the city of…
Even before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, security forces in the “DNR” and “LNR” — the Kremlin-created…
Russia imprisoned Dmytro shortly after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He was freed last month.
