The story of 90 days in captivity of 16-year-old Vladyslav

Описание: Vlad was in captivity for 90 days: from April to July 2022. The boy was detained during the evacuation of civilians along the so-called "humanitarian corridor" from Melitopol to Zaporizhzhia. The Russians put him in solitary confinement and forced to clean the torture cell soaked with blood. During the entire detention period, only one cellmate, a 24-year-old young man, was placed with Vlad. A few days later, after the man was severely tortured, he decided to commit suicide and cut his veins. In this situation, Vlad had to put up emotionally with the suicide he saw and help the Ukrainian to calm down, as if he was helping him depart this life. According to Vlad, when the first month of detention had passed, his hope of making it alive broke. At the time of capture, the boy was only 16 years old.

The story of Vlad’s captivity was documented by the Office of Ukraine's President in cooperation with the SURGe Project, "Support to Ukraine's Reforms for Governance," funded by the Government of Canada, as part of the "CHILDREN OF WAR" information campaign to inform Ukrainian citizens and the international community about the war crimes committed by the enemy against children.

According to “The Children of War” State Portal, as of April 6, 2023, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 19,544 illegally deported minors and 381 missing children are awaiting rescue.

Learn more about children affected by the war on “THE CHILDREN OF WAR” State Portal: https://childrenofwar.gov.ua

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"The Children of War" is a state portal for missing and displaced children that unites the efforts of the Office of Ukraine's President, the National Police, the Prosecutor General's Office, the National Information Bureau, the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, and the Office of Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights in matters of tracing children and returning them from forced deportation.

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