Former Ukrainian prisoners of war Andriy Pereverzev, who, during his stay in captivity, was carved on the stomach “Glory of Russia” and the symbol of “Z”, plans to return to the struggle as soon as he recovered from the wounds.
He told about this in an interview with The New York Post.
After I recovered, I want to return to protect the country and fight for it – and I will join it with great inflammation, with some thirst for revenge, he promised.
Pereverzev was seriously wounded in his legs and stomach when the Russians threw a grenade in front of him, captured in February 2024.
Over the next 11 months, he was captured in Russian hospitals, where he was carried out by terrible medical procedures, after which he was sent to a prisoner of war camp, and in May he was released from Russian captivity as part of the exchange of prisoners.
In an interview with The New York Post, Rovorsev said that when the Russian troops are approaching him, he begged about death, and not captured, because he heard terrible stories about how Moscow related to its prisoners of war.
But his future abductors told him that they would receive a financial reward for bringing him as a prisoner of war, so they took him to a military hospital in Russia for the “appeal”, which was a series of terrible procedures carried out over Ukrainian prisoners of war.
According to him, most medical procedures were performed without anesthesia when he was aware, with the exception of the operation at the beginning of his prison, after which his torso was very tied.
About two weeks after this procedure, overwhelming discovered that in accordance with the bandages, the Russian surgeon cut out on his stomach with hot scalpel from the title letters “Glory of Russia” – a distorted version of the Ukrainian combat call “Glory to Ukraine”.
I asked them: “Why did you write this? Why didn’t you create something special, something (unique to Russia -Ed). There is no original thought here, – Pereverzev recalled. – They replied: “This is our task, and we do it.”
His scars remained to this day, although Pereverzev doctors make him injections to reduce them so that they can be safely removed when other wounds heal.
I cannot take revenge in person (my Russian executioners – ed.), He said. – In general, I want to take revenge on what the Russians are doing – to oust them from the battlefield and stop their missiles in the air.
Source: New York Post
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