« I am a Kenyan, please don’t shoot me. »
With tears streaming down his face, Evans Kibet, a 36-year-old long-distance runner, pleads for his life in a video released by Ukraine’s 57th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade.
Wearing a sports top beneath the brigade’s flag, he raises his hands and begs: « I am Kenyan. Don’t shoot me. » Once an athlete from Kenya’s high-altitude training town of Iten, Kibet says he was duped by a sports agent who promised him a chance to race in Russia.
Instead, his passport was confiscated, and he was forced into signing documents he couldn’t read.
