Prince Sebastian, 24, is not sure about the date and time when the Russian artillery unit in which he is a member, along with his brother, moved towards the Ukraine border to fight against the Ukraine army.
“I presume it was on February 4, as per the date I arrived in Russia from Kerala, that we joined the Russian army to fight against Ukraine. As darkness fell one evening, our unit commandant ordered us to march towards Ukraine. The stretch we had been moving was pitch dark, with occasional noise of gunshots and artillery flares,” says Mr. Sebastian.
By the crack of dawn the next morning, Mr. Sebastian and his unit had reached a province near Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine. Though his unit chief kept changing the position of the tank in the war zone, Mr. Sebastian was shot at the very next day. A bullet struck his left forehead between his eye and ear. As the bullet hit his head after hitting the tank, it didn’t pierce deep into his head. Nevertheless, his relief didn’t last much as his leg was grievously injured when a grenade exploded near the tank.
