Bring Me Back Home

About three thousand Ukrainian prisoners were deported to Russia from the occupied Ukrainian territories in the fall of 2022. Among them are Ruslan, Volodymyr, and Yuriy, who were serving sentences for theft in prisons in the Kherson region. With only a few months of their sentences left to serve, they were taken illegally to the Russian Federation. They were beaten, offered Russian passports, and pressured to go to war for Russia. When the ex-convicts refused, they were deported without documents to the Russian-Georgian border, where they remained stuck for months waiting to return to Ukraine.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the author, Mariana Sych, and Nadiia Ivanova, Director of People in Need’s Center for Human Rights and Democracy; moderated by Tomáš Brolík, deputy editor-in-chief at Respekt magazine.