'Suffer With Dignity': How A Widowed Ukrainian Soldier Endured Russian Captivity
- By Current Time,
- Yulia Zhukova and
- Neil Bowdler
Recently freed in a prisoner swap, Ukrainian soldier Valeria Subotina told Current Time how she endured 327 days of Russian captivity as a prisoner of war. After her husband was killed in action two days after their wedding, she says she had nothing more to lose. Valeria and Andriy Subotin were married in the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol before she was captured.