The photos from the camera of the volunteer medic show the horrors that are happening in the destroyed city of Mariupol after his smuggling was taken out in a tampon.
In Ukraine, Yulia Paevskaya is called Tyra, a pseudonym from the nickname she chose in the video game World Of Warcraft.
Using a body camera, the 53-year-old girl recorded 256 gigabytes of her team’s frantic efforts in two weeks to save people from the brink of death.
Yulia Paevskaya recorded her efforts in Mariupol for two weeks
The camera was given to her in 2021 for a Netflix documentary about Invictus Gameswhere she was supposed to compete, but eventually she used it to document a combat zone.
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She managed to convey painful videos to journalists from the Associated Press as they left the city in a rare humanitarian convoy.
The data card was hidden inside a tampon, and the team went through 15 Russian checkpoints before reaching the territory controlled by Ukraine.
The next day, March 16, Ms. Paevskaya and her driver were captured by Russian soldiers – one of many enforced disappearances in areas of Ukraine that are now under Russian rule.
Now she is in prison with the Russians and has not been seen since.
Russia has portrayed Ms. Paevskaya as a man working for the Azov Nationalist Battalion, a voluntary paramilitary militia created in 2014 to fight Russian forces in the Donbas war.
Two wounded Russian servicemen, left and right, arrived at the hospital for treatment in Mariupol
The allegation coincides with Moscow’s narrative that it is trying to “denazify” Ukraine, but no evidence has been found, as Ms. Paevskaya’s friends and colleagues say she has no ties to Azov.
Photos taken by Ms. Paiveska show that she tried to rescue wounded Russian soldiers as well as Ukrainian civilians at a military hospital, where she led the evacuation of the wounded.
A video recorded on March 10 shows two Russian servicemen being roughly pulled out of an ambulance by a Ukrainian soldier.
One in a wheelchair, the other on his knees, hands tied behind his back, with a damaged leg.
They wear white headbands as winter hats close their eyes.
Yulia Paevskaya and other medical workers bandage the head of the injured soldier
After a Ukrainian soldier swears at one of them, Ms. Paiveshko tells him: “Calm down, calm down.”
The woman asks her: “Will you treat the Russians?”
“They will not be so kind to us,” she replies, adding: “But I could not do otherwise. They are prisoners of war. “
Ms. Paiveshka is a well-known star athlete of Ukraine, as well as a person who trained the country’s voluntary medical forces.
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Her footage is an intimate recording from February 6 to March 10 of the city under siege, which has become a global symbol of the Russian invasion and Ukrainian resistance.
On the first day of the Russian invasion, February 24, Ms. Paevskaya described attempts to bandage an open head wound to a Ukrainian soldier.
The footage from the camera shows footage of an ambulance trying to save a person’s life
Two days later, she instructed her colleagues to wrap a wounded Russian soldier in a blanket.
“Cover him because he’s shaking,” she says in the video. She also calls the young man “Sun” – a favorite nickname of many soldiers she cared for – and asks why he came to Ukraine.
In some confusion, he tells her, “You take care of me.” She replies: “We treat everyone equally.”
Later that night, two children – a brother and a sister – arrived seriously injured in a shootout at a checkpoint where their parents were killed.
Despite all the efforts of Mrs. Paevskaya “stay with me, little one”, the little boy was later pronounced dead.
She turns away from his lifeless body and cries, saying, “I hate (it))” before closing her eyes.
Ms. Paevskaya is one of hundreds of prominent Ukrainian women abducted or captured, including journalists, activists, human rights activists, and local officials.
Julia Paevskaya, known as Tyra, stops at the pool during the 2018 Invictus Games test in Kyiv, Ukraine
To date, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has recorded about 204 cases of enforced disappearances.
It is clear that some victims may have been tortured, and five were found dead.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian ombudsman’s office said it had received reports of thousands of missing people as of the end of April, with about 528 believed to have been captured.
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