Captivity

For 86 days, the Ukrainian military held defenses in the surrounded Mariupol and on the territory of the Azovstal plant. In order to preserve the lives of the soldiers and save the wounded, by order of the higher military command, the defenders stopped the defense, left the territory of the plant and had to surrender to the so-called "honorable prisoner" in the presence of international organizations and observers, with the condition of exchange in 3-4 months. Valery "Nava" Subotina was part of the press service of the "Azov" regiment. She was destined to be in captivity - first in Olenivka, then in Taganrog prison - for more than 11 months. All the circles of hell that she went through in almost a year, Valeria described in this book. Constant surveillance, control, humiliation, inhumane conditions of detention, critical shortage of food and water, attempts of the enemy to break her physically and morally, subjugate her, intimidate her, push her to betrayal — all this happened to her. Interrogations and torture were exhausting. The impossibility of contact with friends and relatives, misinformation and enemy propaganda took away the last hope for exchange and freedom. But captivity did not break the brave woman, now she is a witness to the crimes of the Russian Federation.