Wall Street Journal: Before he left for the front line in 2022, Serhii Boychuk told his wife that if captured, he didn’t want to be taken alive. A few months later, the Russians took him prisoner. Guards beat and tortured him sexually for more than two years, he said.
He recounted being raped with bottles and sticks, and having a knife pressed against his genitals. He still finds it difficult to walk. “They wanted to psychologically break me,” said Boychuk, now 33…