Il sole è tramontato su Kiev nel 1343° giorno dell’invasione su vasta scala. “Non è rimasto nulla della vecchia vita.”

“I fell asleep on 24 February — and woke up in September.”

Bohdan “Puhach” Hrishenkov, now commander of the Azov Brigade, returned from Russian captivity in September 2022 — after surviving the siege of Mariupol and months in Russian hands, where many of the city’s defenders remain to this day.

In this video, he speaks about the physical toll of captivity, reclaiming his life after its end, and what it means to return to a world where nothing from the past remains.