Ukrainian boxing coach Dmitry Shurda, who was captured by the invaders in Mariupol in March 2022, recorded the first video. Shurda in a prisoner’s uniform is filmed against the background of a school blackboard with the date.
Our compatriot in an 18-second video says hello to his relatives, as well as the Ukrainian boxing team.
“To all my colleagues, coaches, hello everyone. I’m alive. Everything is fine,” Dmitry says in a trembling voice.
The man met a full-scale invasion in Lutsk at the competition, but then returned to his native Mariupol, where he began to volunteer, while his daughter and wife were evacuated to a safe place.
At one of the checkpoints of the occupied city, he was detained. As Dmitry’s daughter, Nika Shurda, the champion of Ukraine in diving, said, her father was placed in a pre-trial detention center in Donetsk, where he suffered a heart attack in April 2022.
Source: Obozrevatel
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