I believe we will win the war against Russia, says Cisaruk, one of the wounded Ukrainians in Azov

I absolutely believe that we will win the war against Russia, 27-year-old Sergiy Tsisaruk, one of the wounded and evacuated fighters from the Azov steel plant, is convinced. 

We spoke with Cisaruk in Strasbourg, where tomorrow in the Council of Europe, within the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Ukraine will be debated. In a short conversation with "Sloboden Pechat", he says that he has been recovering from a serious leg injury for half a year and will return to the army after rehabilitation. 

He has been in Azov since the beginning of the war, and about how he got to the Azov battalion, he tells that as a student he participated in the revolution for dignity in 2014 and was refused several times to join the Ukrainian army. 

- But after the tragedy in Ilovaisk in the Donetsk region in 2014, the army was supposed to expand, so I could join. The day came when Russia openly started a war in Ukraine, when its army entered Ukrainian territory, so the Ukrainian army was supposed to become more numerous and many volunteers came forward - says Cisaruk. 

During the Russian attacks on Azov, he was injured in the leg by a bomb during an airstrike on the steel plant and, as he explains, according to NATO standards and protocols, all the wounded should have been evacuated. 

- I was evacuated from the steel plant in Azov and was transferred to a military hospital in Mariupol. And the very next day, the hospital was bombed by the Russians and I was evacuated again to the region of Azov, but in a hiding place - he adds. 

Now he lives in Kyiv, but he is waiting for the moment when he can rejoin his comrades in the army. According to what he says, Azov is functioning again, and the commanders and officers who were evacuated after being injured in March, have already returned to their places in May and, as he says, continued to fight against the Russian aggressor. 

Regarding today's bombings in Kyiv, he says: "Russia has once again shown that it is a terrorist and that is nothing new. We saw the same thing every day in Mariupol." 

However, he adds that he does not know what exactly happened during the explosion of the bridge to Crimea because he had no official position. 

- But as a Ukrainian citizen, for me it was good news, because the bridge was mainly used by Russia to transfer military equipment to Crimea from where Ukraine was being targeted - says Cisaruk. 

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