Metka Zevnik

🇺🇦 These photos must be seen by those who are tired of the war. Roman Hyrylyk after two years in Russian captivity. Hyrylyk was the senior checkpoint controller guarding the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. He and 168 other National Guardsmen who were guarding the plant were taken hostage by Russian forces and transported out of Ukraine via Belarus in March 2022. According to the reported figures, 89 of them remained in captivity, with Russia using Ukrainian prisoners of war as bargaining chips in exchanges for Russian soldiers captured on the battlefield. "The condition of Roman and other Ukrainian prisoners of war is horrifying and evokes associations with the darkest pages of human history — the Nazi death camps," the statement reads. Look at these photographs. Look at what Russian captivity does to a human being. And remember these faces the next time someone tells you that the world should simply move on from this war. P.S. I'm leaving Twitter/X and moving to Substack, where I will continue documenting Russian war crimes and telling the stories of Ukrainian victims and survivors. mykhailorohoza.substack.com