and they replied, it is unclear now who you mean by ours now. they said i was under the guard of the ministry of state security of the separatist dpr. but it was scarier when i got to the separatist hospital. i was told by a russian soldier, you ll have to forget ukrainian now. you will only get help if you ask in russian. reporter: the russians kept him alive, he says, so they could exchange him for their own. translator: there were two of us bedridden. so we had to be fed by nurses. so they would say, because of you my son got killed. i tried to be understanding, but they were accusing us of things we never did. and we had russian news read to us all the time, in the morning and evening. that was a lot of pressure on the mind. a distortion of reality. reporter: on april 27th, th exchange happened and he was put on a plane.
and they replied, it is unclear who you mean by ours now. they said i was under the guard of the ministry of state security of the separatist dpr. but it was scarier when i got to the separatist hospital. i was told by a russian soldier, you have to forget ukrainian now. you will only get help if you ask in russian. reporter: the russians kept him alive, he says, so they could exchange him for their own. translator: there were two of us bedridden, so we had to be fed by nurses. so, they would say, because of you, my son got killed. i tried to be understanding, but they were accusing us of things we never did. and we had russian news read to us all the time, in the morning and evening. that was a lot of pressure on the mind, a distortion of reality. reporter: on april 27th, an exchange happened and he was put on a plane.
haunt him here. translator: the first time i used tourniquets on my friend, and the second scene is this, we saw aviation destroying whole ha han hangars, watching a huge hangar to have nothing left in just seconds. this has really been engraved on my memory. reporter: wounded on april 10th, when he refwand cgained consciousness, he was not where he thought he was. translator: first time i found out i was held captive was when we were inside an ambulance. me and another guy with similar injuries. he asked are you ours? and they replied. it is unclear now who you mean by ours now. they said i was under the guard of the ministry of state security of the separatist dpr, but it was scarier when i got to the separatist hospital. i was told by a russian soldier you ll have to forget ukrainian now. you will only get help if you ask in russian.