Ukrainian Marine tortured by Russians because his name confused them
A Ukrainian defender born in Mariupol spent over three years in captivity because interrogators couldn't process his Cuban lineage.
Junior Sergeant Juan Alberto Leyva García returned from the US in 2018 to serve in the military, eventually defending Azovstal in 2022. When defenders surrendered under international guarantees, he expected Geneva compliance, but got 1,183 days of medieval captivity instead.
Russian interrogators repeatedly electrocuted and abused him, trying to force a confession that he was a foreign mercenary. The simple reality that a Ukrainian citizen could have mixed ethnicity and a Hispanic name was completely beyond the comprehension of Russian prison officers.
The system literally tortured a man for three years because his birth certificate defied their two-bit propaganda logic.
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