{"id":4781,"date":"2025-06-05T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:08:06","slug":"from-the-hell-of-russian-captivity-stories-of-suffering-and-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/2025\/06\/05\/from-the-hell-of-russian-captivity-stories-of-suffering-and-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE HELL OF RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY: STORIES OF SUFFERING AND SURVIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oleksii Anulia<\/strong><\/strong> \u2013 former prisoner of war, spent 10 months in Russian captivity and survived the torture there. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/strong>…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wladyslaw Zadorin <\/strong>\u2013 defender of Snake Island: 679 days of torture, humiliation, and fight for survival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Valeriia \u201eNava\u201d Subotina<\/strong> <\/strong>\u2013 survived the hell of besieged Mariupol, months in the underground of \u201cAzovstal,\u201d and 327 days of Russian captivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Viktoriia Roshchyna<\/strong><\/strong> \u2013 a 27-year-old journalist who documented the kidnapping of children and civilians by the FSB. Because of this, she was identified, detained, and murdered in a manner that should have no place in the 21st century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Volodymyr Tsema-Bursov<\/strong> <\/strong>\u2013 Prisoner of war, senior private of the 56th Separate Motorized Brigade from Mariupol in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who lost weight from 95 to 57 kilograms during 20 months of captivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maksym Kolesnikov <\/strong>\u2013 Freed from Russian captivity, a Ukrainian soldier who was once a restaurateur and manager, admitted that he hadn\u2019t held fresh fruit in his hands for nearly a year. When he received food after the exchange, including an apple, he was afraid to take a bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Maryana Mamonova<\/strong> \u2013 Military medic who spent six months in Russian captivity while pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Olexandr Hrytsiuk <\/strong>\u2013 Captured by Russians in April 2022. In January 2024, his family was informed that his body had been returned from captivity. „He refused to speak Russian.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pavlo Afisov <\/strong>\u2013 During an attempt to escape the besieged Mariupol, he was captured by the invaders and deported deep into Russia \u2014 to the Republic of Mordovia. As he admitted himself, he was \u201cone of the first prisoners\u201d to be taken captive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roman Horylyk<\/strong> \u2013 Senior checkpoint controller responsible for the protection of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After two years of Russian captivity, he lost half of his body weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Yurii Hulchuk<\/strong><\/strong> \u2013 Due to brutal torture, the soldier lost the ability to speak and express emotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oleksii Anulia \u2013 former prisoner of war, spent 10 months in Russian captivity and survived the torture there. Read more… Wladyslaw Zadorin \u2013 defender of Snake Island: 679 days of torture, humiliation, and fight for survival. Read more\u2026 Valeriia \u201eNava\u201d Subotina \u2013 survived the hell of besieged Mariupol, months in the underground of \u201cAzovstal,\u201d and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euromaidan-warszawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}