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Ukrainian health workers who helped smuggle footage of Russia’s attack on Mariupol have been released from Russian prisoners of war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
In Ukraine, Julia Paievska, simply known as Tyra, the character name for the World of Warcraft video game, was released by Russian troops on Friday, three months after being first captured.
Tyra’s husband, Vadim Puzanov, told The Associated Press that he was relieved that his wife would return home soon.
“I was very relieved. It sounds like a normal word and I don’t even know what to say,” Pzanov said.
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In a Friday night speech, Zelensky announced the release of Tyra.
“We were able to free Tyra, the Ukrainian paramedic Julia Paievska, from prisoners of war. Thank you to everyone who worked for this result. Tyra is already at home.” He said. “We will continue to work to free everyone.”
Using the body camera he received last year, Taira recorded over 256GB of video, including her and her team caring for injured Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.
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The video also showed that Russian soldiers were abusing Ukrainian citizens.
She is a member of the Ukrainian Invictus Games for military veterans, where she participated in archery and swimming. The body camera she used to capture the currently widely transmitted footage was handed over to her in 2021 to record footage from the Netflix documentary.
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After the Russian invasion on February 24, she used this device to capture the scene of the war.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.