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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If he can make it to an American embassy, they can probably help him.
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...
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.
I hope he has a good coat.
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.
The French Foreign Legion is a premiere elite service to this day. Yeah, they still exist.
Sounds like a spy. Nothing new.
“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.
The Legion has a minimum five-year enlistment if you can qualify.
I looked. Into it in high school. But I didn’t have the money for a plane ticket to Paris
Foulant la boue sombre Vont les Képis blancs
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.
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.
Just his history evidences he’s not the least bit trapped there. But I suspect he was paid for his story.
His interest in crypto eventually brought him to Kherson…
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Why?
Kepi blanc = headgear of French Foreign Legion
Foulant la boue sombre = out of the dark mud
Vont les kepis blancs = come the [legionnaires]
So, he needs lawyers, guns and money?
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