He refused to leave his comrades, was captured and disappeared from contact - this is the story of Mykola Samoilenko, a special agent of "Kordu".

A year ago, he was captured near Mariupol, and in February, the family was informed that their completely healthy, young and athletic relative died in captivity due to inflammation, TSN reports. 

"I don't have enough fingers on my hands to list what he did.

He was engaged in rafting, rock climbing, knife fighting, shooting, and paintball," says Mykola's brother.

After school, despite his mother's persuasion to become an accountant, Mykola joined the police, and then became a special agent.

Last place of service - Mariupol.

"Kord was his cherished dream," says the fighter's mother. 

He encountered a full-scale invasion in the capital, where he was on advanced training courses, and immediately decided to return to the Azov region.

"I said, 'Son, stay,' and he said, 'No, mom, I'll go, I'll go to my boys, they're my brothers, I'll go to my boys,'" the woman recalls. 

One day, special forces, including Mykola, tried to take civilians out of Mariupol, around which a ring was tightening.

Nadiya with her three-year-old son was in the convoy being taken out when she saw how the special forces who accompanied them were captured by militants.

"We stopped and heard shots.

Shots were fired 4 times.

Drivers immediately waved their hands out of the windows.

I didn't understand what to do at all, because my little child was sleeping," the woman says. 

Nadiya's husband, Yuriy Rybchevskyi, was among those special prize-winners who were captured at that time.

For more than a year of captivity, he contacted only 4 times.

But Mykola Samoilenko called his mother for the last time in September.

They were in Olenivka, then the family found out that the captured Cordovans were transferred to the Donetsk detention center, where the connection simply disappeared.

"On February 28, I was at work, his boss called me and told me bad news.

I immediately understood what had happened.

He said that Kolya died in captivity," recalls the soldier's brother. 

"He died on January 19, my child.

How could it be possible to torture a healthy, trained guy, 26 years old, in one year, to torture him like this, that he died.

We were told that he had developed pneumonia and it turned into acute meningitis.

I don't know where my son's body is," Mykola's mother says. 

It is impossible to even count how many people have already died in captivity - most have no connection with their relatives.

Fighters return extremely exhausted, they do not receive treatment in captivity.

What actually happened to Mykola Samoilenko and where he is buried is still unknown.

Ukraine constantly sends requests for the bodies of those killed in captivity, bodies are periodically exchanged, but in the case of Mykola, there is no information

Mykola's family hopes that a way will be found to rebury Mykola's body in his native village in Donetsk region.

And what's more, that his brothers will still be included in the lists for exchange and they will return home alive.

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