thin, exhausted, wearing an external fixture on his hands. This photo of Mikhail Dianov, a soldier of the 36th Marine Corps, spread all over the world. In the photos of the day when the captives were exchanged, the warrior called "Mishanya" also laughed, despite his experience of bullying and hunger in his captivity.
What did Mikhail go through in the pretrial detention center and what his further treatment would look like, Mikhail's sister Alona Ravrushko retells the matter:
"Mikhail waited in captivity for a long time," Alona Ravrushko said. "He called me with a strange number and told me that he was already in Ukraine and he was exchanged."
On the evening, we went to Chernigov to meet Mikhail. Tears poured out in his eyes as he came out to greet us, but his brother came over and Mikhail smiled. Mikhail is 100% positive and kind. Even now in the hospital, he was crying and joking with the nurse while walking.
mkhail's spirit is very strong. During his imprisonment, he still persisted. Now that he is in the hospital, his weight is gradually increasing. Before being imprisoned, he weighed 86 kg and now 63 kg...so is all the other fighters we see in Chernigov's hospital. None of them "eat well". All Ukrainian warriors were exhausted, as if after the Great Famine.
This photo of Mikhail, a soldier of the 36th Marine Corps, spread all over the world
Mikhail's mother Iryna has been praying with her own hands in the Ternopol Center to sell knitted toys to raise funds for her son's recovery.
So far, we have made calls via video. But we didn't cry, my mother was in a stable mood. She even assured me that you don't need to cry because the most important thing is that my brother is still alive.
The warrior's mother, Irina Dianova, weaves the toys and sells them to raise funds to treat her son. When I first met after I was captured, Mikhail asked me what was delicious.
"He really wants cooked condensed milk, Napoleon cake so there is no limit to happiness. When a person is not nutritious for so long, when he dreams of it, people become very painful... Now, as Mikhail tells us, he opens his eyes, it is no longer a dream. Because you have good things on your table in your motherland.
Did Mikhail mention his experience?
It's an unforgettable memory. Mikhail said that it was in captivity that you started to think again. Test what you once thought was trivial. Because in the wild you could go out, read your favorite books, listen to songs, rather than sing the Russian national anthem every morning. The prisoners not only did not eat well, but were barely allowed to eat. You can't call it food, even the animals on the farm eat better. It's an eighth of a slice of bread for a meal, or even less, that spoonful of porridge, if it could be called porridge. Whether they were forced to work physically or not, Michael didn't mention anything. My brother didn't get medical care at all.
What did you survive when you hit Orenivka?
"It's hard. But the whole period—when my brother was in Atovstale, I had no connection with him, and being imprisoned in itself—for some reason, I was always sure that he was all right and I felt it with my heart.
mkhail Dianov was released from the Azores Valley
The photos of your brother being injured have spread all over the world. Why did you decide to show these terrible consequences of Rushster bullying? What do doctors think about further treatment?
” Mikhail agreed and said: “Let people see the truth, how they treat us, and we pay a high price for the peaceful sky.” Mikhail's brother suffered gunshot wounds in front of Azovstale on the frontline. He was also lucky that he had surgery in a hospital in Mariupol .He managed to get antibiotic treatment.
has an inhuman attitude towards captured Ukrainian soldiers. For a while, he was taken to Donetsk , where the metal device was removed from the outside by cruel methods. The two nails on the top were unscrewed, and the two underneath were just snatched away by live pliers. This further damages the already crushed bones.
Michael's external fixation device was removed by cruel methods, even damaging the already growing bones. This requires surgical treatment. And the bones are not growing correctly. Four centimeters of bones are missing. Despite the unbearable pain, Michael moved five fingers of his hand and even bent it a little. The doctors were surprised to find that under such injuries, they actually began to recover.
Even during his imprisonment, Mikhail still exercises his hands to avoid total atrophy. He did a great job!
Mikhail Dianov has served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces since January 2015
After your brother was released, journalist Violeta Kirtok posted a post about Mikhail and later raised funds for his rehabilitation activities. However, as far as I know, fundraising has stopped. Why?
"After people learned about Mikhail, they started writing in private messages that they wanted to help financially. But this was not our initiative. Violeta is our good friend and we trust her completely. So she listed the details. But we didn't even expect to get such an influence. But the fundraising work has been stopped because pages of fraudsters who represent their family to collect payments for their own accounts began.
What did Mikhail Dianov do before joining the army?
What did Mikhail Dianov do before joining the army?
What did Mikhail Dianov do before joining the army?
He was a pretty versatile man: he worked as an administrator, did heating, played in the rock band, sold shoes...but he found himself in the military service, and had been in the military since January 2015. My brother volunteered to join the military registration and enlistment office and served in the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade. The contract expired and he went home for vacation. But then he returned and returned to service. He fought in the direction of Donetsk and Mariupol, We witnessed what the "Russian world" is.
Mikhail and his daughter Kajia
The last time his brother appeared at home was in November 2021, when he came to attend his daughter Kajia's birthday. We kept communicating by phone. On February 24, Mikhail was near Mariupol. I remember he called me and was worried about our situation, not himself.
