Seven months of captivity. Olha Kutiavina from Rubizhne fought for her language, survived and got out of the occupiers' hell

 Seven months of captivity. Olha Kutiavina from Rubizhne fought for her language, survived and got out of the occupiers' hell

October 17, 2022, went down in the history of modern Ukraine as the day of the great women's prisoner exchange. As part of the exchange, 108 women prisoners of war, doctors, border guards, and 12 civilians were able to return home. Among them was Olha Kutiavina, a well-known volunteer from Rubizhne. 

A TRIBUNE correspondent managed to talk to Ms. Kutyavina. At the time, the woman was undergoing rehabilitation at the Amosov Clinic in Kyiv. Read in our article how the volunteer ended up in Russian captivity, how she fought for the Ukrainian language with an investigator from Luhansk and almost lost the opportunity to return home.

About volunteer activities in Rubizhne 

In 2014, when the war broke out, the Ukrainian military set up a checkpoint in Olha's home village. As she recalls, this was the beginning of her volunteer work.

- They were afraid to help, the population of Rubizhne at that time consisted of 95% of fans of the "Russian world," but those unfortunate 5% were patriots to the last drop of blood, those who really got involved and started working

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