A strong soldier of the 56th separate motorized infantry brigade, Vladimir Tsema-Bursov, who before the great war, with a height of 191 cm, weighed 95 kg, lost 38 kg during 20 months of Russian captivity.
It is impossible to recognize the Ukrainian in the photo before and after captivity.
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The story of Vladimir Tsema-Bursov
A few days ago, in an interview with Svoi.City, a man told his story.
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Before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, he lived with his wife and little daughter in Mariupol.
At first he worked as a musician, as well as on cruise ships, and since November 2019 – an orchestra artist in the 56th brigade.
February 24, 2022 was just on duty. Then the brigade was moved to one of the buildings on the territory of the Ilyich Metallurgical Plant.
In April, during an attempt to break into Ukrainian-controlled territories, a military man and his fellow brothers were captured.
First they were brought to the Yelenovskaya colony, where they survived beatings and torture, and a few days later they ended up in Sukhodolsk in the Lugansk region. Subsequently, they were transported by plane to another prison.
He says that on the night of January 3, he woke up from swearing and the clanging of keys, then he and three other people were called from a cell where there were eight people, put in paddy wagons and taken to the airfield, from where they arrived by plane to Belgorod, and then — by bus to Sumy region.
— Now I am undergoing treatment in one of the medical institutions in the Poltava region. My health is much worse than I expected. I have, as they say, “a whole bouquet” diseases, including chronic gastritis in the acute stage, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) — disease of the human digestive system, chronic prostatitis in remission, etc., — he said.
