A soldier of the Azov regiment, who is known by the call sign Tork, became one of the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol, who at the end of June during the exchange of prisoners managed to return to the controlled territory of Ukraine. Currently, the soldier is in the hospital, where he is receiving the necessary medical assistance.
In Mariupol, as a result of Russian shelling, Tork was seriously wounded. He was bleeding, but was able to swim across the river under fire and reach the Azovstal plant. He saw the death of other defenders and soldiers, so after what he saw, he was no longer afraid of Russian capture.
– It became clear that we are here until the end. The leg is cut off, thrown into a bag. And the other wounded guys are holding this package. And that’s how we got to Azovstal. The only thing left after the capture is a photograph with the bride. The photo “blurred” a little after the river, but it survived, the soldier said.
According to him, the condition of our defenders was only stabilized, but the necessary surgical operations were not performed on them. It is better not to talk about access to medicines at all, since humanitarian aid did not reach the fighters in Azovstal.
Tork said that in Russian captivity they were in a so-called information vacuum. The soldiers of the Russian Federation constantly presented fake news as the truth. In particular, they said that Kharkiv was no longer under the control of Ukraine. However, later the fighters learned that it was just another lie of the occupiers.