The celebrated Ukrainian medic who documented the horrors of the besieged city Mariupol using her body camera, is free three months after she was taken prisoner by Russian forces on the streets of the war-torn city.
Zelenskyy announces release in national address
Mr Puzanov said he spoke by phone with Taira, who was en route to a Kyiv hospital, and feared for her health.But The Associated Press spoke with him before releasing the smuggled videos, which ultimately had millions of viewers around the world, including on some of the biggest networks in Europe and the United States.
Hundreds of prominent Ukrainians have been kidnapped or captured, including local officials, journalists, activists and human rights defenders. But AP found no such evidence, and friends and colleagues said she had no links to Azov, which made a last stand in a Mariupol steel plant before hundreds of its fighters were captured or killed.A Ukrainian medical evacuation helicopter lands in front of Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, in Mariupol.
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