“You think of only one thing: is your person’s name there” — the Mariupol marine who came home after 1,400 days
Marine Ruslan Kurtmallaiev defended Mariupol with the 36th Separate Brigade, was held in Russian captivity for nearly four years — over two of them in solitary — and received one letter and one phone call from his family the entire time. The letter arrived on the bus home.
