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It was cut up in pieces like a sieve. But when I imagine someone hearing this from my mouth and starting to feel sorry for me, I get disgusted.
There was rust and sand, reeds floating there.Borys Kolesnikov, police officer and defender of Mariupol
“There were also ‘shchi’ — they called it water with cabbage. Suddenly we heard a whistling sound… It was a hit by Grad MLRS shell. He joined the Party of Regions and became the Deputy Chairman of the Party and the Deputy Chairman of its faction in the Verkhovna Rada.
Controversies and Accolades
Kolesnikov faced legal troubles in 2005 when he was arrested on suspicion of extortion.
Then, under the constant whistling and flying, I ran under the fence. Because we are their only voice. They put PVA glue on it and said: ‘It will heal’.Ivan Mikula, National Guard member and defender of Mariupol
“4:2”
Once again, the same imagination and sense of humor kept Borys going in prison.
“Ivan and I would mentally go to shopping malls, buy cars, start businesses, buy houses in the village, and raise chickens.
We calculated how much we could sell a dozen eggs for and how much it costs to feed a chicken for a month.
We wondered if it was profitable and if it was, how many chickens would we need? The interrogations started the next day.Borys Kolesnikov, police officer and defender of Mariupol
He was only lucky in one way: the Russians did not have a photo of Borys's military contract with Azov for 2014-2016.
They were moving in a convoy. I told her to go to the hospital.”
Together, they invented a legend for the occupiers: that she was hiding in the Prymorsky district at her relatives' place, and when the shelling stopped, she came to work. Borys lost almost a third of his weight: he was 182 cm tall and weighed 90 kg, but returned weighing 65 kg.
Borys waves away the health consequences, which are many: “Everything is fine.
I hid it under my pillow and tampons behind the radiator so they wouldn't see it. It was poured into a barrel near each barrack from a fire truck. On the way, it became clear: “Therewill beno exchange”.
“I hid the brilliant green: I knew they would bring him in covered in blood”
Instead of the long-awaited exchange, the prisoners were facing a new circle of hell in a Russian detention center.
Even when many civilians gathered near the office of one of the operators, where it was still possible to catch the reception. But when I realized we were going to Azovstal, I didn't take her with us. The native land heals.”
Flowers for mom
Another time in prison, Borys dreamed that he was released from captivity, bought a black Labrador, and named it Prianyk.
“I was released from captivity, and now I have a black Labrador named Prianyk.
In particular, the Azov fighters, who are the most difficult to exchange. More than 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers were housed in five barracks.
Azov fighters wereseparated from the rest. When we counted 1,000 chickens, we realized that we couldn't take it,” Borys says, laughing.
He is smiling now, but more than a year ago, exhausted in the torture chambers of the prison, he turned to God: “Lord, I can't take it anymore, give me some hope or a sign — when will this end?” And he had a dream.
“I was at a football game in Kharkiv.