Horrifying earlier than and after photographs present how a Ukrainian soldier held prisoner by Russia was starved throughout his 20 month seize.
Volodymyr Tsema-Bursov, 41, seems to be painfully skinny in photographs taken in January when he was launched throughout a prisoner alternate.
Volodymyr, who’s 1.91 metres (6.2 ft) tall, misplaced almost half his physique weight and now weighs simply 57 kilogrammes (125 lbs).
His ‘after’ photographs might be mistaken for footage taken at a World War II Nazi dying camp.
He is being handled for a number of medical issues attributable to hunger.
Volodymyr was serving with Ukraine’s 56th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade when he was captured on April 12, 2022.
He had beforehand labored as a musician in Mariupol and on cruise ships and had joined the brigade’s orchestra in 2020.
He was captured by Russian forces once they attacked the Ilyich metal plant, in accordance with native media.
Volodymyr was held within the Russian-occupied Luhansk area and was additionally reportedly subjected to torture.
It’s believed the Russians beat and abused their prisoners and when Volodymyr was launched he was so confused he didn’t even realise he was again in Ukraine.
Volodymyr stated: ‘Now I’m being handled in one of many medical amenities within the Poltava area. My well being is far worse than I anticipated.
‘I have, as they say, a ‘whole bouquet’ of illnesses, together with continual gastritis in an acute stage, non-alcoholic fatty liver illness, gastroesophageal reflux illness (GERD), a illness of the human digestive system, continual prostatitis in remission, and so forth.’
This morning it was revealed that Nato scrambled fighter jets after Russia’s newest missile assaults on Ukraine got here near Nato territory.
Russian strikes close to the border with Poland had been from strategic Tu-95MS plane – nuclear bombers nicknamed ‘Bears’ – which flew from a base within the Arctic.
It was the second sequence of assaults to this point this month and air alerts lasted for greater than two hours throughout the nation.
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Russian forces focused seven Ukrainian areas, together with Kyiv and the cities of Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv.
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