Taira constantly thinks about the prisoners she left behind in a tiny 3m by 6m prison cell where she was held by Russian forces.
She smokes constantly, lighting one cigarette after another as if trying to make up for the three months she had none.A demobilised military medic who suffered back and hip injuries long before the Russian invasion, Taira is also a member of Ukraine's Invictus Games team.
Taira received the body camera in 2021 to film for a Netflix documentary series on inspirational figures being produced by Britain's Prince Harry, who founded the Invictus Games.trained the lens on scenes of warThe camera was on when she intervened to treat a wounded Russian soldier. She called him "sunshine," as she does nearly everyone who comes into her life.
"If I cried all the time, I wouldn't have time to deal with the wounded. So during the war, of course, I became a little harder.The children weren't the first or the last she treated, she says. But they were part of a larger loss for Ukraine. Hours before Taira was captured, Russian air strikes hit the Mariupol theatre, the city's main bomb shelter.Taira gathered a group of 20 people hiding in her hospital's basement, mostly children, into a small yellow bus to take them away from Mariupol.
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