Photos of Ukrainian soldiers after captivity were shown online
Photographers Kostyantyn and Vlada Liberov published photos of Ukrainian soldiers who returned from Russian captivity.
The photographers emphasized that photographs taken in the rehabilitation center are published with the permission of the defenders themselves.
The Liberovs transferred some of these photographs to the Peace Summit in Switzerland, where prisoner of war exchanges were discussed.
“This was our most difficult filming in the last six months. After meeting and communicating with the guys, we couldn’t recover for a week from what we saw and heard. We publish these shots with the permission of the guys themselves. I remember how one of them told me: we must do everything to ensure that this never happens again. But everything happens every day,” the photographers wrote.
According to photographers, during their stay in Russian dungeons, Ukrainian soldiers lost 40-50 kg of weight. Currently, the military is being helped by rehabilitation specialists and psychologists.
“We cannot retell what we heard from the guys. But these photographs speak for themselves. And this despite the fact that before our meeting, the guys gained 10 kg of weight at home in a week.”
To understand what it’s like to lose 40-50 kg of weight (that’s exactly how much they lost during captivity), look at the pictures where the guys show their photographs on the eve of captivity. But what is important is that they could not be broken. And each of them repeated this: they didn’t break me,” the photographers wrote.
The Liberovs recalled that thousands of Ukrainians are in captivity of the terrorist country of the Russian Federation, and expressed hope that Ukraine’s international partners will act more decisively on the issue of exchanges.
“We talked with doctors at the rehabilitation center, where the guys were at the time of our meeting. According to them, most of those who have been captured are overcome with time. The very first weeks on their native land are a state of euphoria from the realization that they survived,” added Kostyantyn and Vlada.
17 June 2024 г., 16:05
