‘I survived 471 days in an underground bunker fighting for Ukraine against the Russians. This is my story’

Exclusive: A Ukrainian sergeant spent 16 months in a front line bunker underground, often unable to breathe and near starving. He told his story to world affairs editor Sam Kiley in Sloviansk


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