Occasionally even a soldier being wrapped up in a body bag. you could hear all of this. and this was all, well, i should say not great for morale, and caused russian soldiers at least some that i spoke to to wonder exactly how long this could last. that may be indefinitely. can you explain how and when you were released from captivity? well, we had been told a couple of times that, oh, we re organizing your release. we can t release you because there s shelling going on everywhere, and yount wouldn t live, you know, you wouldn t get 50 meters would being killed. suddenly one day we were released and driven through chernobyl, all the way out to the border near bella russia and told to start walking, belarus is that way, and that s all it was. it was simply no notification of where we were going. we weren t given our passports back until we were dumped by the