Ukraine brings back National Guard soldier held in slavery for over three years

Ukrainian defenders have carried out a unique special operation and freed a veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a National Guard serviceman who had been held in captivity and slavery in Luhansk Oblast for more than three years.

Source: Ukraine's Military Ombudswoman Olha Reshetylova and the Ukrainian Navy's special reconnaissance unit Angels on Facebook

Quote: "Fighters from the Navy's special reconnaissance unit Angels have brought back home a 29-year-old Armed Forces veteran and a 34-year-old National Guard serviceman, who had been considered missing for over three years but was in fact held in captivity and slavery in temporarily occupied territory."

Details: The veteran's mother, who also serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, contacted Reshetylova with information that her son was hiding in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast after enduring multiple tortures.

It later emerged that the National Guard serviceman had been held in slavery nearby by one of the collaborators.

Unit officer Artem Dyblenko said it was a complex and risky operation: "In fact, two parallel special operations were carried out – the men were escorted separately from each other up to a certain stage."

Dyblenko added that neither the National Guard serviceman nor the Armed Forces veteran had known the full plan – they trusted the special reconnaissance unit and followed its instructions precisely.

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