18/ Almost everyone coughed and suffered from fever. In response to our complaints about the state of health, we were given analgin and other pills, which practically did not help."

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17/ The prisoners were also denied any access to personal hygiene and were unable to wash themselves. Not surprisingly, this was bad for their health. "Many who were kept in the basement had various diseases. Many, including me, suffered from headaches.

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16/ The basement was dirty and infested with rodents. "Mice were constantly running around in the basement next to us. One of them we caught in a box where it was gnawing on our expired rations."

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The prisoners were initially denied any food and then given minimal rations: "We were not fed for the first three days. We were given three expired rations [to share between] 9 people, which we ate for three days. Then they started feeding us once a day."

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13/ We were completely deprived of freedom of movement. We had to go to the toilet one by one. We often had to pee in a tank of about 50 liters.

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7/ Their bodies were not taken away for a long time because of constant mortar attacks." Mikhail blames his commanders for "tactical and strategic miscalculations, … constant lies to their own subordinates, insufficient medical and material support."

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His unit retreated from the front line on October 12 after sustaining heavy casualties. He and 13 others filed reports stating they would refuse to fight, prompting officers to hold repeated 'educational discussions' with the men.

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5/ "We were immediately thrown into the front line with machine guns against tanks and artillery. Sometimes we came under fire from our own artillery, including Grads [BM-21 rocket launchers]."

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3/ Mikhail was released apparently due to his pre-existing medical condition – a traumatic brain injury sustained in 2018 – which meant he should never have been mobilised in the first place. He has vowed to bring to justice those holding Russian soldiers captive illegally.

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4/ In his complaint to the Investigative Committee (which investigates corruption in state bodies), Mikhail says that he and his colleagues were promised that they would only serve in the rear areas, but this was broken as soon as they were deployed to Ukraine:

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