"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. 6 831 3 Previously in trend: Abduction of journalist Dmytro Khyliuk Ukrainian journalists in Russian captivity
IMI Director Oksana Romaniuk: "We recorded cases where not only were drones dropping munitions on journalists, but snipers were also shooting at them" Much depends on how journalists work during wartime — because information, too, is a weapon in this war, one that the enemy actively exploits. That’s why those who speak the truth to the world become targets. 6 113 8 Previously in trend: Abduction of journalist Dmytro Khyliuk Ukrainian journalists in Russian captivity