"We were accused of terrorism. I was held captive for 105 days"

Mariupol resident Vladyslav Shabanets was in Dnipro in the first days of the invasion. This helped him find a team of like-minded people in the first week and start acting. Vladyslav took people out of the besieged city, provided shelter to those who managed to escape from Mariupol. On March 24, Vladyslav's car was stopped at a russian checkpoint. He was taken to a pre-trial detention centre, then to Donetsk. He was accused of terrorism and sent to the Olenivka penal colony. Surviving in the colony was physically difficult, emotionally even more difficult. The Bible saved him, which he secretly read with his cellmates at night. And so they held out - Vladyslav spent 105 days in captivity.