"The Russians were pleased." Released from Olenivka volunteer told about captivity and torture

The hero of the new episode was the fivety -year -old Vladimir Gnatovsky, who went on risk to save strangers. He disappeared at the end of March, when he exported people from a temporarily occupied Mariupol. "I told him every day: Vova, it is so dangerous, be careful," says Vladimir Liliy's sister. - He always answered me: “You didn't see what's going on there, there are corpses just in the middle of the city. I have no moral right to leave people in that hell. " He is very responsible.

He always worried about family problems, helped in the treatment of parents and often visited us in Podolsk. From the beginning of the war, he helped save people from Nikolaev on his own minibus. But one day we were called from Mariupol and said that six children from dehydration die in the basement. On the same day, he changed his direction and went to Mariupol. " Already on March 28, Vladimir warned his sister that he would disappear for several days.

But in a few days or a week he did not contact. After Vladimir Liliya's sister left the search for the missing channel, a man contacted her, who told that Vladimir was in one camera in captivity. Then about 30 volunteers were captured, who rescued Mariupol. They were transported to a temporarily occupied Olenivka in Donetsk region. The invaders threatened him for 10 years of imprisonment, but Vladimir managed to return home.

Even after his release in this colony, about fifty Ukrainian prisoners were killed as a result of the provocation of the invaders. “There were about 3,000 people with me in this colony. Our camera was 16 square meters. At the same time there were 36 people. We slept on the floor in turn. It was a real horror, because it was very difficult to withstand all torture. The first 15 days I thought I would go crazy because I left my mother at home. I could not imagine more cynical torture.