"The worst was hunger. People lost their minds." 810 days of captivity of Kostyantyn Myrhorodskyi
- Bucha, Borodyanka, Klavdiievo-Tarasove. The beginning of the invasion
- "Some old woman was shooting at us from a balcony with a shotgun!" Captivity
- "They moved TVs from cell to cell." Detention center in Novozybkov
- "We don't give a f*ck, let him die". The prison in Pakino
- "The guards didn't care at all. They weren't taking us to the prison." The exchange
"In captivity, I dreamed of doing three things when I returned: singing a song by Taras Petrynenko, kissing the ground, and smoking a cigarette with a good cup of coffee," the soldier recalls. "When I was on the bus after the prisoner exchange, I thought why not sing?"
On May 31, 2024, Ukraine freed 75 citizens from Russian captivity. Among them was Kostyantyn Myrhorodskyi, who had spent more than 800 days in captivity. On that day, a video of him singing, recorded by journalists, garnered hundreds of thousands of views on social media.
Myrhorodskyi is the founder and one of the instructors of the volunteer initiative Military Diver School. Russians captured him in March 2022 in the Bucha area. His family knew he was in captivity, but there had been no information about him since then.