in may, on the day of the withdrawal of the ukrainian military from azovstal, kyryl popov arrived at the ukrainian border. on the border with the occupied region, the official's geolocation data was interrupted for more than a month. on june 17 , 2022, he appeared again at the border and from there went to moscow. it is very likely that kyryll popov was in the occupied territory for more than a month. during this period, we recorded his contacts with representatives of the prison system of the occupation regime, the top management of the federal penitentiary service of the russian federation and the leadership of the prison special forces of the russian federation. we called kyryll popov to ask about his role in managing olenivka. for this, we used a russian phone number and communicated in russian to get at least some information from him.

i am a journalist, and i would like to talk to you about the olenivka pow camp, which you managed. who are you my name is zhenya, i am a journalist. who are you, zhenya, where, give me your city number and who are you talking to? give me your city number, i don't have a city number at hand now, the city number, give it russian, i am calling you from a russian number, we know the number of kirill popov, registered in telegram under the nickname fyodor konyukhov, it was under this pseudonym that he published a photo of the bloodied chevron of the defender of mariupol. in the propaganda

telegram channel with the signature "azovstal 2022" may. also, three ukrainian servicemen confirmed that they saw kyryl popov in olenivka. he gave orders and coordinated the work of other prison employees. the totality of these facts allows us to conclude that it was kiril popov who could to be one of those responsible for capturing the defenders of mariupol. july 27. in 2022, almost two hundred servicemen of the azov brigade were transferred to a separate barrack on the territory of the industrial zone of the prison without any explanation. this barrack was located in the so -called prumzon, it was a little far from the other barracks, about 100-200 m. in the evening, nova vvodnaya was told by the russian

services that guarded us that after 10 p.m. no one goes outside the barracks, we at night they closed the feeding troughs and everyone left, there was no one, all the objects they guarded and these the towers that were there, they were not there, no one was there, that is, they were somewhere in one specific place of hiding and somewhere... well, approximately at 11 p.m. we heard an explosion, the glass in our barracks fell, we went outside and there after a few minutes , they started to hear a wild ref, the russians, i understand, started to panic, all the guards fled somewhere, and this continued for about an hour, probably. the explosion occurred

between 11:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on july 28 in the same barracks where the soldiers of the azov brigade were transferred the day before. per hour yurik makerchan and several other captured military medics were allowed to the site of the explosion. we collected everything we had, all the bandages, minimal ones there. a couple of solutions, a couple of painkillers, at that moment i couldn’t imagine that there would be so many wounded people, in my entire life, i think no doctor will face such a one-time mass influx, we don’t have light, so we are crossing the threshold of this fence , and i see several guys lying there, i see one with a head injury, the other with a wound on the extremities, bleeding, i i raise my head, i see. my senior

officers, the commander of the hospital, i see that they are already starting to triage, yes, to isolate seriously ill patients, there is no light, i tell the russian, i don’t give it, and at the same time he guides the beam of this flashlight in this direction, and i just see what is it like that until the end of how that flashlight shines, everything is just littered with bodies, you know? throughout the night, a team of captured medics rescued the wounded servicemen of azov. the russians did not provide either medicine or means for resuscitation of the seriously wounded. employees of the colony even did not try to save militarily. prisoners since 12 midnight, i see that it is already dawn, they are not taking anyone, at this moment these are already seriously ill, whom we could not help, they are starting to die, and one by one, we gathered them like this under the fence , the russians set up such beautiful

flashlights and watched us work there, and i got the impression that people were watching some such blockbuster. they comment, laugh, perform resuscitation, i hear how dimon screams, another one approaches, i see that this one, if he has already stopped, i am nothing to him i will help, i leave him again, i go to the next in the hope that maybe i will do something with him, the same minus, well, how can you sit in the middle of the night and watch people die and not do anything, well, how can this be justified at all, more than 130 servicemen received wound. only at dawn some of them were transported to the hospital on trucks. 57 defenders of mariupol died. russia has not yet

allowed any independent group of experts, including representatives of the un, into the territory of olenivka. he is conducting his own investigation into the mass murder of prisoners of war ukrainian prosecutor's office. we, in turn, also try to recreate the entire picture of events, despite our lack of physical access to the place where it happened. we believe that after 100 days of illegal detention, volunteers kostyantyn and yevhen were taken out of prison and released, the men had a long journey from the occupied territory to the eu, now they live in neighboring apartments in germany and have become close

friends. in prison , the features of people are very well manifested, he quickly gets used to things. we have a group of people involved here volunteering, collecting funds, helping our people at the front. you want me to sit down, so beautiful, tetyana eldiab was exchanged, she returned to her hometown in the north of ukraine, is recovering her health, and is looking for a doctor who can cure her leg. yurik mykordchan was transferred to another colony in the occupied territory and later exchanged. he works in one of the military hospitals of ukraine and continues to treat the wounded. this is my new team, with whom we work, yes, but every time i come here and remember my own, you know here there are many of us, and there were units, and these units continue to be in prison,

doctors, not combatants, not military, who do not take part in the armed conflict directly. freedom to his colleagues and the seriously wounded who are there, there should be at least some respect for the doctor, at least in the form of freedom, just release these people, serhiy shevchuk was transferred from the deer park to a colony on the territory of russia, there he was brutally tortured, in my there were eight broken ribs, the chest, a rupture of the liver in... hematomas of all internal organs, well, the knees will be broken, during all this time he was saved by thoughts about his family, he spent three months in russia, he was exchanged for the new year, what he wanted most was to see my daughter, she

is the youngest of mine, she is four years old, the girl is so blue-eyed, i was just waiting for her, i never thought that i would have a daughter, i was afraid that she would not recognize me. maryana mamonova was nine months pregnant and was transferred from prison to a donetsk hospital to prepare for childbirth. but at the last moment , the russians gave up along with several hundred other ukrainian defenders her for exchange. she overcame the path from the occupied territories through russia and belarus to the ukrainian border. the door opens, i don't remember who from the ukrainian military says that mariyash needs to get out now, then he will have to get out of the car. all this at home. what? ukrainian language, can you imagine,

taking off the bandage, yellow and blue chevrons, the armed forces of ukraine, ukraine, i just wanted, you know, to fall on my knees and cry from the happiness of my home. in a few days, maran. mamonova gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby girl, whom her parents named anna.

ivan golyk is 41. he comes from truskavets. before

the full-scale invasion, the man worked as a construction worker in poland. however, on february 25 , 2022, he returned home and, despite his wife's persuasion, immediately went to the military. there he was told to wait his time. ivan joined the army in january 23rd. in 5 months. training and training began to work in the ranks of military intelligence. the man served in zaporozhye and donetsk region. he was seriously wounded in february of this year, during one of... combat sorties under enemy fire. ivan and his brother decided to wait in the dugout, but a tank shell exploded nearby. two 19-year-old border guards who were in the dugout died immediately. three soldiers were injured, among them ivan and his brother. well, it was lunchtime that they were still standing behind us and they

died. many of his partners were torn away. but it's not like, well, the medicine there is already without power, because of his feet and with numerous fragments in his legs, ivan put tourniquets on himself above the knees. all the time until evacuation, which is more than 9 man hours remained conscious. he poured water on his head, killed the water, because he knew that he was deliberately executed in such cases. he lost consciousness already in the middle of evaku, he regained consciousness. in the dnipro, he informed his wife about the injury on his own, although he said that he had lost his toes, but in order to save the life of the seriously wounded soldier, whose kidneys had already begun to fail, doctors had to amputate his limbs at the level of the hips. after long-term treatment in dnipro and kyiv , ivan

was sent to lviv, to the anbroken center, for rehabilitation and prosthetics. the most difficult thing, says the man, was in the first days after am yes, there is something more terrible, and i felt it more strongly already here in lviv in surgery, when i had the last three operations, and here there are already such painkillers , not powerful columns, here here such a thing, only then i felt, what is phantomnico ivan has been working with the physical therapists of the anbrucken center for four months, they prepared the defenseman for prosthetics, and now they are helping him to master it again. on metal limbs with ivan, we had essentially no difficulties in our work, that is, this is a patient who will always come to classes there, works, i know that he will carry out all the instructions on his own, he himself knows that he needs it first of all, i only help, give instructions, instructions and he does it. both of ivan's prostheses have electronic knee joints,

thanks to which it is possible to create the most natural movements. the cost of such modern technological prostheses. they were installed thanks to the donations of ukrainians for the collection of the charity platform dobraya, and the prostheses are for the indomitable. all this time, his wife and children were next to ivan. they - says the man, pain and remains his greatest support and support. when asked what he will do first when he stands firmly on his new limbs and returns home, the man answers with a smile. i will go with my family somewhere to relax, go fishing, maybe somewhere in the mountains. ema stetnyk, roman kovalyuk, espresso tv channel. congratulations. you know, you can watch endlessly and wonder how the russians

fall into such hysteria and stupor every time they get something like this. themselves, but every time it causes them just something like that surprise: why us? well, of course, i am talking about what is happening in the kursk region, but it turns out that, you know, it is possible to attack ukrainian territories, but when this happens on russian territory, you know, there is such a level of misunderstanding and surprise and... from some of these the literally comical statements on russian television on this matter, well , it just goes off the scale, and perhaps the most beautiful of what was said, these are these two small such episodes, they entered the territory of peaceful villages, where old people and children, vile

behavior, not at all sporting, not military, if appropriate. nothing wrong, of course, our citizens of the russian federation in no way expected that in the 201st century they could be attacked and killed so treacherously, as they say, they already thought that all this in the past was happy that no one will not escape payment, well... actually, we are the ones who are now watching the retribution and how russia attacked ukraine in the 21st, in which century, in the 19th, 18th. or the 20th, no, she attacked in the 21st century, 10 years ago, let me remind you, and also on peaceful villages, peaceful citizens, does not continue to be attacked, but you see, they didn’t wait, they didn’t wait

and were terribly surprised, and the first thing that they rushed to do was to literally cry out to the sunset, how come, why, say something, and give us something let's arrange a truce, because how come they attacked us, why don't you demand something now? when the armed forces of ukraine attacked our kursk region, the olympics had not yet ended, we did not hear a single call for an olympic truce, we were also addressed with this, here the invasion begins without a word, macron is silent, the prime minister of great britain is silent, everyone is silent, what they say, they say, and we didn't know, we didn't know, it's a terrible surprise for us, let's believe them for a second, although they don't have faith,

it's like, who's driving there, a bomber pilot of the russian air force, i don't know if it's real or some kind of fake, but it's interesting what was written there, and he wrote the following, i personally thought in all seriousness that there was some kind of agreement with nato, that if at least one a ukrainian enters our territories, then everything will immediately come to an end in all senses, writes this a russian, for example, gives anatoli a suitcase for the night. well, he means lukashenka, and then even though the grass doesn’t grow, and the ukrainians didn’t even set foot, even though they could for a long time, well, that’s how he understands that the ukrainians

actually could have crossed the border of ukraine a long time ago, if they hadn’t been prevented, well, but there is no logical justification for the reason why the ukrainians did not attack russian territory earlier except for davarniak, he writes, that is, with nato itself, and there is no logical explanation. violation of this contract, except for the assurance that the promised end is guaranteed, not guaranteed and unlikely. well, what i just read to you is actually a symbol of faith that the kremlin, well, somehow spread to the deep russian, but the deep russian simply believes in his impunity, and that is until the moment, in fact, the entry of the defense forces of ukraine into the kursk region all. their actions in ukraine can be explained by only one thing: this confidence that the answer will never come exactly like that, that's all you

heard there, that's about it, probably with nato, with which, let me remind you, they say that they fight with nato, but it turns out nothing similar, they are not afraid of nato, because as if with nato, they believed that they had agreed that no one would ever attack. the ukrainians will probably not attack russia, and here, you know, several questions at once, and if you are so sure and actually always believed in this and that is why you attacked ukraine, let's remember what was the explanation for the attack on ukraine from the very beginning, well, the fact that they are afraid that ukraine will attack, and that ukraine is preparing, it should happen now, but it turns out that there is nothing like that, no one ever believed in it, and only now, when finally... it happened, they realized that this is a violation of all agreements, it is probably because they are not afraid, and the first reaction, of course, after that was to tell

on all the russian tv channels that there is an immediate need for a nuclear weapons to hit somewhere, some acts of revenge, reprisals and so on, and really all this was about some acts of reprisal in the first days on russian television, eh... well , it is happening in some places now, but i will say this, much, much more carefully, just as such , which we all hope, now they are they say that putin is preparing something like that, but at the first moment the reaction was, well, that's exactly what it is, demonstrative actions of revenge are necessary, hence the necessity of destroying critical infrastructure objects of ukraine undoubtedly follows. first of all, power plants, for this we have all means of destruction. there are these

objects, they are indicated. accordingly, the adversary and western curators will understand something when they hurt him very much. get on your knees and let the snorer beg for peace. i think they're underestimating the rather scary what-if scenario suddenly, if somehow the situation in some place gets out of control. they are absolutely sure that russia will not strike with nuclear weapons. hit him from behind with a tactical nuclear weapon, pull up the guns and shoot the hell out of the ukrainian nazis. everything, silence, there will be an uproar that the russians have gone mad, why are you fighting like this, well, enough of the roosters. well, actually, this is also, once again, a symbol of faith of the deep russian, that hitting somewhere there

with a nuke, well... what can i tell you, they have been talking about it for a long time and have been talking for a long time about how to destroy the whole ukraine, we have heard absolutely nothing new for more than a week of the operation that is taking place in the kursk region, and you know, with a high probability we will not hear anything new, somewhere it will be, this is all the noise, but in general, if you look at what in reality, both russian propaganda and the russian government reacted, and from... it immediately began to talk about the fact that nothing was actually happening, and everything had already stopped, and it started, literally , not from the second day, but right away there, everyone came out and began to tell that everyone was already destroyed, and there is nothing, there are no soldiers, thousands of people have invaded russia, russia has shown new

footage of the destruction of the personnel of the armed forces in the territory of the kursk region. 56 units of armored vehicles of the armed forces of ukraine were destroyed in the kursk region. in particular, 11 tanks, you see, they were all destroyed on the first day, who is there? has been fighting for a week , it is not clear, well, what else, she somehow said so little, the chief of the russian general staff surprised everyone there, gerasimov, who told about the fact that they destroyed more than they entered, that is, he even agreed to this, then at first 1000 were destroyed there , 600, at first, then another 1000 were destroyed, this, and in total 100 entered, well, in short , no one understood how they managed to destroy twice

as many as entered, but here... in fact, this is what they have been telling since the first day in general all these events, well, you know, the russians believe, but i'll tell you right away, don't think that the russians don't believe, the russians do believe, they repeat all this, but they believe exactly as long as they don't disconnect from russian television, in these very territories the kursk region has already been disconnected from the russian language television in most areas, and i know it right away. which lives there somehow began to speak in a different way, and moreover, it suddenly noticed that it turns out that they are lying to them all the time, and immediately began to cry about it, villages are being destroyed there, you probably do not know anything, but there fear of god, what is being done, they are lying on tv, they lie, they lie, they lie and they lie, the creatures lie, that's why the disconnection from russian television, you know,

it works, it works. technology, let's say, is necessary.