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Artem was held in taganrog for seven months. he says he was frequently beaten and given electric shocks. he often witnessed other captives suffering too. after the beatings one day, i was brought to a room. i saw a young man holding his hands up, his fingers were bleeding. "did they insert needles under yourfingernails," i asked. he said yes. for weeks, i tracked down ukrainians who had been taken to taganrog and came back. people like irena, who is now a conscript officer in the military. she was a combat medic when she surrendered. she says not even the women were spared the brutality of the...

Translation: sheer hell. the scariest part was when they called you up for interrogation. how can you describe a place where you are stripped of everything human? these ukrainians were captured by the enemy... translation: they can do anything they want with you physically. - ..and taken to this russian prison in taganrog, a place they now associate with torture. in may last year, the city of mariupol was under siege. artem, a sniper with the azov regiment, wanted to keep on fighting. but ukraine ordered the troops in the azovstal steelworks to surrender. translation: when | heard - about capt...

Tracked down some of the ukrainians who were held in taganrog to hear their stories. translation: sheer hell. the scariest part was when they called you up for interrogation. translation: how can you describe a place where you are stripped of everything human. these ukrainians were captured by the enemy. translation: they can do anything they want with you physically. and taken to this russian prison in taganrog, a place they now associate with torture. in may last year, the city of mariupol was under siege. artem, a sniper with the azov regiment, wanted to keep on fighting. but ukraine ordere...

About what could happen. artem was held in taganrog for seven months. he says he was frequently beaten and given electric shocks. he often witnessed other captives suffering, too. translation: after the beatings, | one day i was brought to a room. | i saw a young man holding his hands up. his fingers were bleeding. "did they insert needles under yourfingernails?" i asked. he said yes. for weeks i tracked down ukrainians who had been taken to taganrog and came back. people like irina, who is now a conscript officer in the military. she was a combat medic when she surrendered. she says not even ...

Including hundreds of the azovstal defenders. many are being held in prisons across the country, a violation of the rules of war. here campaigns like this one are fighting for their freedom and for russia to protect their rights. ukraine says nine in every ten prisoners who have been returned allege they were tortured. this is the biggest challenge for me now, how to protect our people on russian side. and i don't know how and nobody knows how we can do it. the russian defence ministry hasn't replied to our requests for comment. but prisoner swaps like this one give hope to families still wait...