Stanislav was reporting from his native city of Donetsk for various Ukrainian media after part of the Donbas region fell under the control of Russia-backed separatist militants in May 2014. In 2017 Stanislav was taken captive. Most of the time in captivity, of the 962 he was held prisoner, he spent in a prison called ‘Isolation’. Stanislav kept notes about the events that took place at what used to be the territory of the main cultural platform in the region.