Ukrainians share harrowing experiences under Russian captivity and deportation.

Victoria Andrusha, a Ukrainian teacher, was taken prisoner by Russian troops for providing her friends with the location of Russian positions and the direction of supplies and vehicles. During her five-month captivity, she was beaten, humiliated, and threatened with rape and mutilation. Despite this, she managed to keep seeing light at the end of the tunnel and returned home as a person, not a vegetable. She now teaches math problems to her young students in Kyiv and feels empathy for her kidnappers, who she believes are zombified due to a lack of overall information.