A UKRAINIAN soldier who had his throat slit before being buried alive and crawling for five days back to safety has vowed to return to the front line.
Vladislav, 33, said he and his comrades endured bloodcurdling torture while being held hostage by Putin’s “creatures” who mutilated and castrated them.
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Vladislav, 33, told how he crawled for five days to return to the safe side of the front line[/caption]
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The brave solider, who is unable to speak, wrote his horrific experiences in a diary which has been shared by his family.
Putin’s bloodthirsty forces also gouged out the hostages’ eyes, cut off their lips and disfigured their faces, according to Vladislav.
He said he was captured in early August trying to help comrades who had been taken prisoner after losing control of a position near Pokrovsk, on the front line in Donetsk.
Vladislav’s brother Yevhen, said: “The first guys who were captured – they were from intelligence – had their eyes gouged out, their lips cut off, their male organs cut off, their ears, their noses.”
The Ukrainian was then thrown into a pit alongside seven dead comrades before being covered in garbage as part of the horrifying mass grave.
Vladislav’s wife, Victoria, told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne.”He says he was lucky that when they threw them into the pit, they poured more garbage on top so it wouldn’t be so visible.”
“There was a broken bottle there, and his hands were tied, so he was able to cut the rope with that bottle.”
The determined soldier then spent a total of five gruelling days dragging himself back to the front line to reach safety.
He covered his throat with a makeshift bandage before setting off on the life-or-death escape mission.
He reached fellow Ukrainians there on August 17 before he was rushed to hospital.
Vladislav had lost a severe amount of blood, and his wound had even begun to rot, a medic in the Ukrainian military said.
The doctor told Suspilne: “When they cut your throat, when a person is bleeding out, there are few chances.
“He held on to the end, but, you know, what makes it different is that he was sure to the end that everything would be fine.”
Vladislav has already undergone surgery, and doctors haven’t given up hope that he will be able to speak again.
The soldier has a 4-year-old daughter – and he is already planning on returning to the front line.
His brother told how he branded Putin’s troops “creatures”.
And he said he wanted them to go through “what I and those seven of our Cossack boys felt,” Yevhen said.
The soldier has vowed revenge on his captors[/caption]
Firefighters work after a Russian drone strike in Sumy, Ukraine[/caption]
It comes as Putin continues to launch attacks on war-torn Ukraine, despite a high-stakes meeting with the US President over one week ago.
Following the historical summit, Trump then met with European allies including Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House where they boasted significant progress in peace talks.
The Don even made a call to Putin halfway through his talks with Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni and other world leaders.
Last weekend, US Vice President JD Vance claimed that Russia had abandoned its ambitions to control Ukraine, counting it was a key concession win.
He remains confident Trump will broker an end to the fighting.
It also came as Washington was blocking Ukraine from firing long-range missiles into Russia.
The Pentagon introduced a review mechanism in late spring that is effectively preventing Kyiv from striking targets in Russian territory, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
This has stopped Kyiv benefitting from the full firepower of US Atacms and British Storm Shadows.
President Biden gave the greenlight for Ukraine to use the Atacms back in November – and Storm Shadows were fired into Russia for the first time that same month.
Two US officials told the paper that a Ukrainian request to use Atacms had already been rejected on at least one occasion.
House burns after Russian strike in Ukraine[/caption]
