Starvation by design: marine reveals Russian tactics to permanently break prisoners
A Ukrainian marine survived almost four years in Russian captivity on starvation rations designed specifically to destroy soldiers' mental and physical health.
Andriy Petruk, a defender with the 36th Marine Brigade, dropped below 50 kg during his time in captivity. Starvation was a calculated policy to inflict irreversible damage so that released prisoners could never take up arms again.
The conditions were deliberately dehumanizing: regular beatings, a total information vacuum, and bizarre restrictions like forbidding more than one person to walk in a cell at any given time. What kept him sane was dreaming of simple coffee and carving verses onto his prison uniform using a sharpened chicken bone — a collection now titled 'Satan's Sanatorium'. Immediately after his exchange in Chernihiv, he downed three cups of coffee in a row.
Four years of calculated starvation beaten by a chicken bone and sheer stubbornness.
Source: Ukrinform
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