former soviet soldier still in Afghanistan

Found while googling (it's 2 years old):

When the last Soviet general left Afghanistan in 1989, he famously said: "There is not a single Soviet soldier or officer left behind." But at least one Soviet soldier never went home.

Last month, a red-haired man with piercing blue eyes limped into the Kabul residence of a veteran British journalist named Peter Juvenal. Gennady Tseuma was dressed in the baggy shirt and trousers traditionally worn by Afghans, but he spoke fluent Russian.

Tseuma was born in what is now Ukraine. He first came to Afghanistan in 1983 as an 18-year-old conscript in the Soviet army. Less then a year later, mujahedeen fighters took him prisoner, and he has stayed in the country ever since.