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“I have never seen such atrocity,” border guard Oleksandr Zarva tells about 21 months of Russian captivity In April 2022, border guards of the Luhansk detachment held positions in the Kharkiv region and were surrounded. While trying to escape the encirclement, the car in which the soldiers were traveling was shot by the Russian occupiers. Then Oleksandr was wounded, and together with his comrades he was taken prisoner. Oleksandr spoke about 21 months in enemy captivity, threats of execution, and the attitude of Russians towards patriotic tattoos in our interview.