By Elias Clure, ABC News
Photo: ABC News / Daniel Pannett
Evans Kibet's cell in Western Ukraine consists of eight bunks with thin mattresses, a few wooden chairs and a barred window that looks out onto a bleak, concrete prison yard.
Life consists of not very much - reading, three basic meals a day and outdoor time, which is ostensibly an hour-long shuffle in silence.
As autumn becomes winter, the prison camp is bitterly cold.
"Kenya is never cold," Kibet said, speaking of his native country.
Kibet, 36, is being held in Ukraine as a prisoner of war, after being caught on the front-line in a Russian uniform, but he told the ABC he was not a soldier.
Kibet said he was an athlete, who had been the victim of a scam in which he was lured to Russia and thrust into battle.
"I was tricked," he said. "I didn't know what I was doing."
Photo: ABC News / Daniel Pannett
He claimed the fraud began in Kenya and the town of Eldoret, a renowned running hub that has produced some of the world's finest athletes. Kibet had spent much of his life trying to break through in the brutally competitive world of Kenyan middle-distance running.
Despite a relatively successful career on the track, athletics wasn't paying the bills. Compared to other runners, he was also getting old.
"I didn't make money, because I needed to go outside Keny
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