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With tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia.
“I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on the video released on Wednesday by a Ukrainian army brigade.
The 36-year-old prisoner-of-war is wearing a red sports top. The brigade’s flag is pinned up behind him.
The aspiring long-distance runner says he was tricked into joining the Russian army and is desperate to go home to see his 16-year-old daughter.
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