"You will have a beautiful death." Released from Russian captivity British who fought for Ukraine told about the bullying of the invaders
Video of the Day "I didn't think I would be alive," he said in an interview. In 2018, Eslin fell in love with Ukrainian and joined the Ukrainian Marines. After the start of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, he participated in the fighting in Mariupol, where in April his battalion was forced to be captured after they ended food and ammunition. “They swept my passport and quickly realized that he was not Ukrainian.
The soldier asked in Russian, “Where are you from? They separated me from others and began to be questioned in the body of a armored personnel carrier. I came to my commander and said, "Look, they will take me, they will probably kill me, I need you to tell my family when you come out if you come out that I love them," Eslin said about them The first hours in captivity. After that, he was taken to the occupied part of the Donetsk region, taken to the insulator with a hood on the head.
During the interrogation, he was repeatedly beaten with a double, and threatened to cut off his ear. When he fell to the floor, he was hit on the forehead again. "The officer smoked a cigarette and kneel in front of me to ask: do you know who I am? I said no, and he replied in Russian: "I am your death. " He said, "Did you see what I did with you?" He showed on my back. He showed me his knife and I realized that he hit me with a knife.
Then he asked me, "Do you want a quick death or beautiful death?" I replied in Russian: "Fast death. " He smiled and said, "No, you will have a beautiful death . . . And I will make sure that it is a beautiful death," Eslin describes a conversation with the occupier when he was captured. Over the next five months, it was kept 24 hours a day in the chamber only 4 by 6 feet (1. 2 by 1. 8 m), which was swept by cockroaches and lice, writes The Sun.
He did not see the sunlight - he was only allowed to shoot in propaganda rollers and respond to calls from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eslin prisons turned on the endless play of the Russian anthem and ordered him to become and sing it, threatening beating. He was ordered to shout "Glory to Russia" when he opened the lattice of his cameras. In May, he was "tried" for "mercenary" and he tried to communicate with his family. He made it clear that he was lying, rubbing his nose.
Eslin was "sentenced" to death and told him that he was being shot. "I couldn't cry for all five months of imprisonment. When I heard that they made a death sentence, I wanted to cry, but I just couldn't. It was literally the question of survival. Your life is in the hands of these people and you do what they tell you or you suffer from consequences.
Despite everything we went through, I knew that sooner or later we would see the light at the end of the tunnel and that I would come back to see Diana and my family, ”the Briton described his experiences. Before exchanging, he was dressed again, removed from the camera and put in a truck that was heading to Rostov-on-Don Airport in Russia. He was captured with his captivity-59-year-old John Harding, 48-year-old Sean Pinner, 22-year-old Dylan Hili and 35-year-old Andrew Hill.
"I heard one of the soldiers" Exchange ". I began to worry, but continued to tell myself: "Stop, stop. " I could not care. They said, "Did you hear news about the Queen?" I heard about it on the radio in my chamber a few days earlier, so I said yes. It was quite emotional. I was put in a truck, ordered to kneel and wrist and my eyes with adhesive tape. We were put in stress and tied together so that we could not move. I still had no idea what was happening, but in a few hours we arrived at the airport.
I removed the film and tried to understand where I was. I look at the Saudi group, and one of the guys says, "Is this Roman Abramovich?" " - Eslin described the exchange procedure. According to him, Abramovich shook his hand, saying "well that you are here. " "Less than 48 hours ago I was in a single chamber, I was worse with me than a dog, and now I was on a plane with people who did not want to hurt me," the Briton said about release from captivity.
On June 9, the so -called "Verkhovka" terrorist group "DNR" announced that he "condemned" to the death of two citizens of Great Britain Eiden Eiden Eslin and Sean Pinner, as well as a citizen of Morocco Bargim Saadun, who defended Ukraine and joined the Armed Forces The invasion of Russia. According to The Telegraph, Eslin warned his relatives in June that his "sentence" could soon be fulfilled. On September 21, Ukraine conducted the largest exchange of prisoners from the beginning of February.