
The ex-footballer of Ukrainian clubs reported that he was detained while walking with a stroller and sent to military service, after which he got lost in the forest and surrendered to the Russian military.
AI-generated summary
Former Ukrainian football player Yegor Azbukin was detained by the TCC and sent to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after which he ended up in the Sumy region.
Brief retelling from RIA II
Former Ukrainian football player Yegor Azbukin was detained by employees of the territorial recruitment center in 2024 while walking with a stroller and taken to the military registration and enlistment office.
After a formal medical examination, he was sent first to training, and then to guard vehicles of the 5th border detachment, and later to the Shostkinsky district of the Sumy region to equip positions.
Azbukin got lost in the forest and voluntarily surrendered to Russian soldiers, noting their decent attitude towards prisoners.
MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. Former Ukrainian football player, captured serviceman of the 5th border detachment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Yegor Azbukin, told how employees of the territorial center detained him in 2024 while walking with a stroller and took him to the military registration and enlistment office.
“I was walking with a stroller near the house... They stopped me. It was already six or seven in the evening,” Azbukin said in a video from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
According to him, TCC employees decided to “break through the database.” The former Ukrainian football player, who previously played for clubs in the First League of Ukraine, was wanted and was taken to the military registration and enlistment office.
“I have one eye, the left one, from birth it shows five percent... I was counting on the fact that maybe this topic would come up,” said the prisoner.
But the medical commission was carried out formally. At first, Azbukin was sent to “training”, then he guarded the vehicles of the 5th border detachment near the city of Lebedin in the Sumy region, far from the line of combat contact.
However, as the serviceman himself admits, he subsequently “began to act weird” because he did not want to serve. He was transferred to the Shostkinsky district of the Sumy region, where he was supposed to equip positions. It was opened by military personnel from the North group of forces and they hit it with fire. Azbukin got lost in the forest and voluntarily surrendered.

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