42 days without food. The story of a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut

The Ukrainian defender with multiple wounds was locked in the cellar with the bodies of his comrades.

During the clearing of positions in the Bakhmut region of the Donetsk region, where Russian soldiers were present, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine found a captured brother-in-law in the basement of one of the houses. It turned out to be a serviceman Alexei Gordeev. Alexei is wounded, and is in the basement with the bodies of his dead comrades. The incredible story of the survival of the Ukrainian defender will be told by Correspondent.net.

“Eating crumbs and drinking water from puddles”

Aleksey was found by a volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from New Zealand, who, after liberating the positions where the Russians were, conducted a sweep. Gordeev lay in the cellar with his dead and seriously wounded brothers for 42 days. The man ate crumbs and drank water from puddles. In a month and a half, he lost weight from 80 to 42 kilograms.

“This is another act of inhumanity by Russian terrorists. Their brutal actions against Ukrainian hostages have been recorded again and again. We call on international organizations to respond to these crimes. We must do everything possible to bring terrorists to justice,” the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on Twitter.

In the foothills near Bakhmut they know the captured Ukrainian fighter Oleksiy Gordiev.

Injured, Aloe Alive, Oleksiy lay in the dungeon for 42 days with his beaten and seriously injured brothers. Kharchuvavsya krihtami, thin from 80 to 42 kg – beer from Kalyuzh. pic.twitter.com/3a05dgAXi3

— UA_StratCom (@StratCom_AFU) March 15, 2023

“Bullet and shrapnel wounds”

In this regard, journalist Andrei Tsaplienko specified that Alexei was found in one of the villages in the Donetsk region. The serviceman had bullet and shrapnel wounds.

“The battles were going on above, and the wounded Aleksey lay for 42 days in a dungeon with his comrades who were killed and dying of wounds, which he wanted, but could not help. He ate crumb – lost weight from 80 to 42 kg – drank from puddles, and when the water ran out – toxic antifreeze from the heater,” the journalist wrote.

Now Gordeev is in a hospital on the Dnieper. He was operated on, treated for poisoning and dystrophy, and will soon be transferred to a clinic in Kyiv.

The prisoners were starving.

It should be noted that earlier there was information that the Russian military kept captured Ukrainian soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the basement for almost two months without food. The head of the Center for the Study of Social Perspectives of Donbass, a former Ukrainian negotiator at the Trilateral Contact Group, Sergei Garmash, said on March 12 that of several Ukrainian prisoners of war, only one survived. The man was found by the Armed Forces of Ukraine when they retook the position.

Note that Garmash did not publish the photo at that time and did not pronounce the name of the hero of his post. But he reports that a soldier named Alexei drank antifreeze from thirst and now he is being treated, among other things, for poisoning.

“A man was taken to the hospital not far from the front line. I have never seen anything like it. Except for the Soviet newsreel about the liberation of Auschwitz. Extreme exhaustion. Just a living skeleton. We recaptured the enemy’s position and found he . basement. They did not feed. If not for a Russian soldier who, out of pity, shared his ration with him, he would have died of hunger. He drank antifreeze because of thirst. Poisoning increased with exhaustion, ” Wrote Garmash.

According to him, several comrades of this military died in the basement due to injuries and hunger.

“Aleksey was lucky. He was freed. “They gave me compote,” he repeated again and again, smiling. Compote was a dream in two months of hunger and a cold basement. Collecting his things for evacuation, saw I have documents and photos. 27 years old. Nice guy with a nice girl,” said the journalist.

Garmash added that he does not publish a photo of a fighter for ethical reasons.

“He asked not to publish pictures with him until he called his mother. Since he was taken to another hospital, I don’t know if he called or not, so I didn’t publish anything. Yes, and the such pictures are hardly ethical. for a wide display. It is rather for the future The Hague,” he wrote.

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