Kenya’s player Evans Kibet joined the Russian army and started to go to Ukraine.

His tears shed tears, and now in Ukraine, a captured young Kenya athlete begs not to send it back to Russia.

Evans Kibet waved his hand in the air toward an invisible interviewer in a video released by the Ukrainian Army Brigade on Wednesday, saying, “I will die.”

The 36 -year -old war prisoners are wearing the Red Sports Tower. The flag of the brigade is fixed behind it.

The attention long -range runners said that it was desperate to return home to meet a 16 -year -old daughter with a deception to join the Russian army.

In addition to the video, the 57th separate electric infantry brigade said that Russia is an example of how Russia treats foreign recruits, but he added, “I fought next to the enemy, so whether words and tears depend on your discretion.”

The brigade said the interview was filmed with Kibet’s consent, but the BBC did not confirm it. I’ve never heard of recruits from the Russian army abroad, but this is rare in the video.

Citizens of Somalia, Sierra Leon, Togo, Cuba, and Sri Lanka were now spoken by Petro Yatsenko, a spokesman for Ukrainian war.

“Most of these people are from the poor and are on the Russian side. Some dismiss the promised jobs in the factory. Others are voluntarily participating in the war. It is important to understand that most people are almost living or seriously injured.”

Going back to Kenya, Kibet’s family and friends were shocked by what they saw.

After a sigh and a long suspension, his cousin Edith Chesoi told the BBC that she was playing the video repeatedly in her head.

“I was so traumatic. I didn’t sleep at night. I don’t know what to say.”

Kibet’s younger brother, Isaac Kipyego, described him as “humble man and a few men” and the rest of his family as pillars and torture.

They know him as a person who dedicates him to sports.

Kibet said in a Ukrainian video, “I like running and like running.” And he may have led him to an unconscious Russian new employee.

Kibet took his life around the athletic athletics, a sports sport that lifted many Kenyans from the village to global recognition.

He grew up in an agricultural family in Mount Elgon, west of Kenya.

Kibet was trained in Eten, a highly city that is famous for producing Olympic players and world champions, but he did not reach its position in the field of competition. Instead, he competed in the 10 km of Europe and Asia and the anti -marathon road race, according to family and friends.

His younger brother said, “Kibet has been running since childhood.” “He was always talented. Run was his life.”

But sports defined his identity, but did not convey the financial breakthroughs he had longed.

Friends say that Kibet is having a financial difficulty.

In March, he asked Elias Kiptum, a training partner, to help the race in Poland, but the team was already full.

KIPTUM told the BBC, “I think this is the way he ends in Russia.

In the second half of that year, when a sports agent proposed a trip to Russia to participate in the race, Kibet captured the opportunity. To confirm this, the BBC’s call for agents was not received.

Kibet’s brothers said, “He was very excited when he said he would be racing in Russia.” “I was even happy for him. We had high expectations.”

His cousin, Chessoi, who escorted him with a bus park on the first leg of the journey in late July, said he was carrying a “small travel bag”.

Kibet told his family that it would disappear for two weeks.

In a video shot in Ukraine, Kibet said he went to Russia as a visit to not a “military job”.

Two weeks later, his master asked him if he wanted to stay longer.

“I said: ‘Yes, but the problem is that my visa has expired.’ He said,” No, I can do something for you. “

“In the evening, he brought a paper written in Russian. He told me. ‘This is what I want to do.’

“I didn’t know it was a military day.”

Kibet then signed the documents and said that the man took the phone and passport.

“And it is all wrong … The signature ruined my life.”

According to Kibet, others appeared and said to take a car. Then I drove for about 7 hours.

“I found myself at the military camp.”

Kibet said he joined the army and said he had no choice.

“I heard: ‘You will go to fight or kill you.’

He said he had a week of basic training and showed how to deal with an automatic rifle. None of his commander said English, so the guidelines came out of the gestures.

Kibet abandoned his equipment on his way to the first mission after he participated in the battle and escaped for two days through the forest near VOVCHANSK in the northeastern Ukraine.

He approached some Ukrainian soldiers.

“I grabbed my hand and went there,” he said.

“I said: ‘I’m Kenya, please don’t shoot me.”

“Everyone aimed at me, but I told them to calm down, and the commander came and they tied to me, I told them.

Despite the shock of Kibet’s family, there is a slogan that he is in the hands of Ukrainians.

“We think he’s not in Russia, it’s a bit safe.”

The family demands intervention from Kenyan authorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet responded to the request.

Ukrainian spokesman Yatsenko said, “If his origin government expresses interest in his home repatriation, Ukraine is open to negotiations on moving him home.”

But speaking about other prisoners of war, he added, “Most African countries are very interested in the return of those citizens and don’t want to regain them.”

For Kibet’s loved ones, their priority is his safety.

“If he makes a mistake, let them forgive him. We want him again,” he said.