Snake Island's defender returned from Russian captivity on his birthday (video)

The released serviceman said that he was hard in captivity in his captivity and wished those who were still in captivity, not to fall in spirit. A 28-year-old defender of the island of Snake was released from Russian captivity. The Ukrainian warrior returned to his native land on his birthday, June 11. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Telegram. The dismissed military told representatives of the State Border Guard Service, which he doubted to return home.

"They got on the bus and went with eyes. According to the Ukrainian defender, whose name was not named, he exhaled only at the border when he stepped on his native land and saw children with yellow-blue flags who met released from captivity. "I was lucky, I made such a gift for my birthday. I did not pass emotions. I turned away and cried. It seems that all Ukraine knows that I had a birthday," the border guard admitted. The fighter shared how difficult it was in captivity, especially morally.

"Every night you lie down and pray, think about your loved ones. Everyone who is still in captivity, I wish not to give up and believe in the best, not be afraid and fall in spirit," he says. We will remind, on June 9, the Foreign Minister Oleg Nikolenko stated that the department was summoned by the Hungarian attorney because the Russian Orthodox Church had handed over to Budapest a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war of Hungarian origin from Transcarpathia.