After several months of tortures, he was sent to Gulag concentration camps in Kotlas and Vorkuta.

In 1942 he was set free as a Polish citizen and fought in the Anders' Army in Egypt and Italy, including the Battle of Monte Cassino.

[5] For a period of two years he moved to Munich, West Germany, at the invitation of President Mikoła Abramčyk.

He made the first broadcast to his homeland on May 20, 1954, and remained with the programme until April 1956 when he returned to Toronto.

Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič was president of the government-in-exile of the Belarusian Democratic Republic between 1970 and 1982.