“When a man turned blue and nearly passed out from beatings, the spirits of hartshorn were applied. That was the treatment”

Kostiantyn Velychko spent more than a hundred days in captivity. A volunteer from Mariupol survived dozens of beatings and interrogations. He did not collapse and even helped others in the filtration camp in Olenivka (the former Volnovakha penal colony), as much as he could.

The prisoners slept in turns, as there was not enough sleeping place for everyone in the cell. They drank industrial water, starved, and were tortured.

At the beginning of the full-scale war, Kostiantyn delivered some humanitarian aid to Mariupol and evacuated people on the way back. At the end of March, the Russian invaders announced a hunt for volunteers like him. So almost fifty civilians ended up in captivity. Journalists from Inter TV channel recorded an interview with Kostiantyn and shared it with our Museum.