‘They Told Me I Would Die in Captivity. I Knew Ukraine Would Survive’
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‘They Told Me I Would Die in Captivity. I Knew Ukraine Would Survive’

May 20, 2026
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For Volodymyr Mykolaienko, the war did not begin in 2022. Like many Ukrainians, his story stretches back to the upheavals of 2014 and the Revolution of Dignity when he, like thousands of others, stood on Kyiv’s Maidan as the country fought for his future. Years later when Russian forces swept into Kherson in the opening days of Russian invasion of Ukraine, they assumed the city would fall.

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‘They Told Me I Would Die in Captivity. I Knew Ukraine Would Survive’

Instead, it resisted.

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