"Prison guards would say to me during shakedowns, "Khyliuk, why are you so thin?" I weighed about 55 kg. Now I weigh 74," journalist Dmytro Khyliuk, one year after captivity When journalist Dmytro Khyliuk was released from Russian captivity in a prisoner exchange in August 2025, and all his colleagues wanted to interview him, Censor.NET decided to wait and speak with Dmytro a year later. We wanted to learn how he had readjusted to life in Ukraine, how he had reconstructed his view of the world after three and a half years in the information vacuum of Russian prisons, and what Ukraine looked like to him in the fifth year of the war. 7 059 3 Previously in trend: Abduction of journalist Dmytro Khyliuk Ukrainian journalists in Russian captivity