According to Simon, that day he participated in the assault on the village and was attacked with cluster munitions.
“Night came and I had to retreat. I started looking for my partner Andrés, another Spaniard, and I fell into some trenches,” he remembers. “So I didn’t know if they were Ukrainian or Russian trenches. I fell into the hands of Azerbaijani soldiers. They mistaken me for a Ukrainian and I spent the entire night as a prisoner in a trench. “They couldn’t believe that a Spaniard had joined the Russian ranks, because they understand that we Spaniards are members of NATO and we must, for the most part, support the Ukrainian side.”
Simon fought for seven years in Kurdistan and Iraq against ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). He decided to participate in the Northern Military District on the side of Russia out of ideological convictions.
