Survivor, is the word that best suits Sviatoslav. Former Ukrainian policeman, detained for 4 months, will participate in the counteroffensive.

"Many of my colleagues obeyed. But I and 25 other policemen decided to stay in the city," he says. For that massacre, the Russians accuse the Ukrainians of denying and speak of a Moscow operation to cover up the torture of prisoners. "We knew immediately that we were going to go to jail, we are not children," says the former policeman.