‘Lost and forgotten…’
Oleksandr Fedorenko was found guilty of theft and sentenced to three years and six months behind bars by a Chernihiv region court in 2019. He started serving his sentence in a Bucha prison, but it was disbanded in 2020. From Bucha, Fedorenko was transported to Kherson, southern Ukraine. That’s where he learnt the news that the Russian government had unleashed war on his country.
“We were all following the news but I did not believe that Putin would attack,” Fedorenko says. “I was saying: ‘Guys, he won’t risk it because everyone will start helping us’. I thought that it was clear to everyone.”