This is Episode 5 of True War Crime — a series of real stories from people who survived Russian captivity.
When Yevhenii Malik was captured, an unexpected image came to his mind — a scene from Lethal Weapon, where Mel Gibson's character is suspended by his arms before being tortured.
What seemed like a movie scene became reality.
Yevhenii went through the hell of Russian prisons and torture chambers. In this episode, he speaks openly and without censorship about what happened to him, what he witnessed, and how he survived.
Some stories sound too brutal to be true.
Unfortunately, these are not scenes from a movie.
Oleksandr Savov survived Russian captivity and finally returned home in 2025. But captivity had already taken an enormous toll on his body. After years...
Dmytro Melnyk served in Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces and was captured in Mariupol in 2022. For the first three months, the Russians didn’t even...
Before 2022, Ruslan Odaiskyi was a merchant ship captain who traveled the world. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he left that...
