aiThe day before her capture, medic Yulia Paevska, Taira, provided Associated Press reports with unique footage of besieged Mariupol.

ai"Burning cars with burning people in them... Police officers pulling women and children who have been mutilated unrecognizably out from under the rubble... People collecting water from puddles... Ransacked houses... Dogs dragging human limbs through the city..

aiAt the hospital, medical cars arrive every five or ten minutes. The wounded and dead lie one on top of another and there are no more beds, no anesthetics or antibiotics left. Everyone is sleeping two or three hours a day as operations take place one after the other".

aiShe exclaims:" А city of half a million dies before my eyes from methodical, planned airstrikes. Air raids on hospitals and residential areas."

aiYulia Paevska, Taira, was in captivity for three months. She shared a small cell with 22 other women, lost about 9 kilograms/20 pounds, suffered torture and beatings.

aiShe recounts: "For weeks prisoners screamed and died in their cells as a result of the torture they received and no medical treatment. The only thing they felt before they died was bullying and beatings. I see my friend whose eyes I closed before he died, and another friend, and another".

aiTaira was released from Russian captivity on June 17, 2022.

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aiUkrainian hero and volunteer medic, Yulia Paevska, Taira, is known for secretly filming and exporting videos that document atrocities committed by Russian forces in Mariupol. She has been honored with the International Women of Courage Award by the US State Department. And, she has addressed the international human rights Helsinki Commission, citing the atrocities committed by Russian troops that she witnessed at Mariupol and while in captivity.