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US man ‘trapped’ in Russian-controlled Donetsk despite release from prison
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Posted on 12/06/2022 4:57:42 PM PST by algore

US man ‘trapped’ in Russian-controlled Donetsk despite release from prison

“I am very happy to be free. But I don’t know what to do next. The Russians never gave me back my passport, and I feel trapped here,” Murekezi said in a phone interview from the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Russian-annexed Donetsk region.

Before moving to Ukraine, Murekezi spent six years in the US air force. He left the military in 2017 and started investing in shares and cryptocurrencies. His interest in crypto eventually brought him to Kherson, a city he quickly started to call home.

When Russian forces captured the city on 2 March, Murekezi said he decided to stay and help Kherson and its people. “I did not want to run away. I loved Kherson,” he said.

He was arrested a few months into the Russian occupation when he tried to change the oil in his car, an American Dodge Challenger that he had shipped over from the US.

“Looking back on it, driving a sports car in the middle of a war zone with American licence plates was definitely a bit suspicious,” he said.

Once arrested, Murekezi was first placed in a prison in Kherson, where he said he was interrogated and tortured twice

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KEYWORDS: dumb; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 12/06/2022 4:57:42 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

If he can make it to an American embassy, they can probably help him.


2 posted on 12/06/2022 5:00:34 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: algore
“I did not want to run away. I loved Kherson,” he said.


3 posted on 12/06/2022 5:03:04 PM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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To: algore

I was in the USAF. Maybe I’ll get into something shady and move to the Central African Republic.
He and I can be pen pals...


4 posted on 12/06/2022 5:03:52 PM PST by EEGator
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To: DannyTN

Possibly...years ago I had a poco problem in some sh*thole country and had to wait it out till the local militia cleared out. Wish the guy well.


5 posted on 12/06/2022 5:05:18 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: algore

I hope he has a good coat.


6 posted on 12/06/2022 5:08:52 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: algore

He wanted excitement. He wanted adventure and to ‘save’ people from harm. He got what he was looking for, and more.

50 years ago, somebody like this may have joined the French Foreign Legion. Not sure how active that organization is now. It may no longer exist.


7 posted on 12/06/2022 5:16:58 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

The French Foreign Legion is a premiere elite service to this day. Yeah, they still exist.


8 posted on 12/06/2022 5:22:10 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: algore

Sounds like a spy. Nothing new.


9 posted on 12/06/2022 5:31:34 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 24 degrees, burrr!!!)
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To: algore

“Once arrested, Murekezi was first placed in a prison in Kherson, where he said he was interrogated and tortured twice”

Based on what I’ve read about those Russian animals, if one is tortured by them, they don’t live to tell about it...and he claims it happened twice.


10 posted on 12/06/2022 5:33:08 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 24 degrees, burrr!!!)
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To: Fai Mao; lee martell

The Legion has a minimum five-year enlistment if you can qualify.


11 posted on 12/06/2022 5:34:42 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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I looked. Into it in high school. But I didn’t have the money for a plane ticket to Paris


12 posted on 12/06/2022 5:41:03 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: lee martell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4srd5T6z8Fg

Foulant la boue sombre Vont les Képis blancs

13 posted on 12/06/2022 5:46:22 PM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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To: Fai Mao

After being with the French SF a couple of times in France and almost getting into a fight with a legionnaire while with the French, I did get an application, but I’m not a five-year kind of guy, I like adventure but I don’t like long commitments.


14 posted on 12/06/2022 6:22:50 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Jim Noble

My French is tres mauvais (bad) now, but I think your post has something to do with “Something dirty and muddy that will keep on losing whites”.
I’m probably way off.


15 posted on 12/06/2022 6:23:47 PM PST by lee martell
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To: algore

Just his history evidences he’s not the least bit trapped there. But I suspect he was paid for his story.


16 posted on 12/06/2022 6:25:35 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Jim Noble
He doesn't seem to have much common sense to say the least.
17 posted on 12/06/2022 6:26:34 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: algore

His interest in crypto eventually brought him to Kherson…

Why?


18 posted on 12/06/2022 6:42:40 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: lee martell

Kepi blanc = headgear of French Foreign Legion

Foulant la boue sombre = out of the dark mud

Vont les kepis blancs = come the [legionnaires]


19 posted on 12/06/2022 6:46:39 PM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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To: algore

So, he needs lawyers, guns and money?


20 posted on 12/06/2022 6:51:01 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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