After an operation to rescue Andrey Kozlov and three other hostages from Nuseirat and Deir al Balah in central Gaza, Evgeniia and Mikhail rushed to Israel to see their son again, Sky's Alistair Bunkall reports.
Evgeniia Kozlova was at home in St Petersburg last weekend when she got the call from her Israeli liaison officers. 'They asked, 'how are things, how are you feeling? Are you alone there? Are you sitting down?' 'I dropped the phone to one side, and it fell under the table.
'One of the phrases that really scared or hurt us, was when he said, 'there are some things I will never tell you about,' as for everything else, yes, he tells us, but it's as if he's playing storyteller, as if to entertain us,' Evgeniia added. 'Even the fact that his hands and feet were tied for two months - his hands and feet were tied - he tells it as if it were a joke.
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