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Viktoriia Andrusha sits for a portrait in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. When held by Russian forces, Andrusha was told repeatedly that she would die in prison in Russia, that they would slash her with knives until she was unrecognizable, that her government cared nothing about a captive schoolteacher, that her family had forgotten her, that her language was useless. They forced captives to memorize verse after verse of the Russian national anthem and other patriotic songs. “There was a point when I was already sitting and saying: Honestly, do what you want with me? I just don't care anymore,” she says. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)