Missing Red Army Soldier Found 33 Years Later in Afghanistan

It’s been 33 years since former Red Army soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov went missing in Afghanistan.

Khakimov, now referred to as Sheikh Abdullah, was recently found practicing herbal healing and living among the people in the Herat province in western Afghanistan.

Abdullah was involved in the 1980 Soviet invasion and had suffered a wound to the head.
The local people rescued the wounded soldier and allowed him to live among them.

Abdullah was found by Russia’s Veterans Committee, who looks for other MIA soldiers that went missing during the invasion.

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