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Three years in Russian captivity; rehab for a Ukrainian soldier

2026 · 15 min · English

After three years as a Russian prisoner of war from the battle for Mariupol, twenty-five-year-old Kyrylo Chuvak gets three quiet weeks at a Ukrainian rehabilitation center built around archery, tango and tea rather than talk therapy alone. It is a rare look at what treating a soldier's mind, not just his wounds, actually looks like mid-war.

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Why it's free: Free on The Guardian's own channel; the paper's video team produced it.