Kharkiv, Ukraine (AP) – A famous Ukrainian doctor recorded his time in Mariupol on a datasheet that would not exceed a sketch smuggled around the world using a swab. Now it is in the hands of Russia and Mariupol itself On the brink of collapse.
Yulia Payevska, who accompanied Tyra’s doctor, used a body camera to capture 256 gigabytes of footage of her team’s head-to-head effort to put people back on the brink of death within two weeks. Received scary clips about the Associated Press team; Recently international journalists In the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as They went on a rare humanitarian convoy.
Russian soldiers arrested Tyra and her driver the next day, March 16, after one of the forced disappearances in one of the Ukrainian districts now in Russian hands. Russia described Tyra as a member of the Azov Nationalist Battalion. According to the narrative of Moscow That is trying to “denounce” Ukraine. But the AP found no evidence, and friends and colleagues said it had nothing to do with Azov.
The military hospital where he conducted the evacuation of the wounded was not in the Azov Union. A video he took shows Tira trying to rescue wounded Russian soldiers along with Ukrainian civilians.
A clip from March 10 shows two Russian soldiers brutally being pulled out of an ambulance by a Ukrainian soldier. One is in a wheelchair. He was lying on the other knee, hands tied behind his back, he obviously had a leg injury.
A Ukrainian soldier swore against one of them. “Calm down, calm down,” Taira told him.
The woman asked him: “Will you cure the Russians?”
“They will not be kind to us,” he replied. “But I couldn’t do anything. “They are prisoners of war”.
Tyra, 53, is now a Russian prisoner, as well as hundreds of local officials, journalists and other prominent Ukrainians who have been abducted or taken away. UN Human Rights Watch has recorded 204 cases of enforced disappearance in Ukraine, stating that some victims may have been tortured and five were later found dead.
Russians have targeted doctors and hospitals Although the Geneva Conventions separate military and civilian doctors for protection at “all times”. Russian soldiers on May 8 accused a woman in a Mariupol convoy of military medicine and forced her to choose whether to pursue her 4 -year -old daughter with an uncertain fate or continue her journey into the controlled territory. of Ukrainian. The couple eventually separated.
Tyra’s situation and what she has revealed about Russia’s treatment of Ukrainian prisoners are gaining new importance as Mariupol’s last defenders are brought to Russian -occupied territories. Russia said more than 1,700 Ukrainian fighters surrendered at the steel mill this week, Ukrainian officials said. The warriors came out after their mission.
The Ukrainian government said it tried to add Taira’s name a few weeks ago to the prisoner exchange process. But Russia denied the allegations in a statement released on Friday stating that “similar and baseless allegations about Russia’s foreign policy have been made more than once.
Tyra is known in Ukraine as a stellar athlete, as well as as someone who has trained volunteer doctors in the country. The video, shot from February 6 to March 10, shows an intimate story of a besieged city that has since become a global symbol of Russia’s aggression and resistance to Ukraine.
On February 24, the first day of the war, Tyra published the narrative of the attack on a Ukrainian soldier who had opened his blindfold.
Two days later, he ordered his comrades to wrap a wounded Russian soldier in a blanket. He called the young man “the sun” – a favorite nickname of many soldiers who passed his hand – and asked why he had come to Ukraine.
“You care about me,” he said almost surprised. His response: “We treat everyone equally”.
That same night, two children – a brother and a sister – went into a roadblock seriously injured after being shot and killed. Their parents died. At the end of the night, despite Taira’s request: “Stay with me, baby”, so did the little boy.
Tyra broke away from the lifeless body and cried. “I hate it,” he said.
Throughout the video he complains of chronic pain from back and thigh injuries. he joked. And always, she wears stuffed animals attached to her vest to be passed on to any child she treats.
On March 15, police provided a small data sheet to a group of Associated Press reporters. Tyra asked journalists to pick up the card from Mariupol safely. The card was hidden inside the pad when reporters passed 15 Russian checkpoints.
The next day Tyra disappeared with her driver Serh.
A video aired on Russian news on March 21 announced his arrest. In it, he looked angry and tired when he read a statement calling for an end to the fight. When he speaks, his colleagues voice Nazi.
With his wife and teenage daughter, Tyra knows what a war family can do. At one point, the wounded Ukrainian soldier asked his mother to call him, and she told him she could call him, “so don’t worry about him.”
Tyra’s husband, Vadim Puzanov, said he received little information following the disappearance of his wife.
“Blaming a volunteer doctor for all the deadly sins, including organ trafficking, is outrageous propaganda – I don’t know for whom it is,” he said.
Taira is part of the Invictus Games for Ukraine. Last year, he got a body camera to shoot a Netflix documentary series about inspirational figures produced by British Prince Harry, founder of Invictus Games.
Instead, he shot footage of the war. In Tyra’s latest video, she sits next to a driver who is missing with her. March 9.
“Two weeks of war.” Mariupol is under siege, “he said softly.Then no one openly swears and the screen darkens.
Associated Press writer Sarah El Dibb contributed from Beirut; Inna Varenitsia of Kiev; Mstislav Chernov of Kharkov; Erika Kinz from Brussels; And Elena Bekatoros in Zaporizhia. Reported by Lori Hinnant from Paris.
Source: Huffpost
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