Sergeant Yakunin was one of the Spetsnaz operatives sent to Somalia to capture Jack Bauer. After Bauer was seen at Berbera International Airport, Major Danko and his team of operatives met with Irina Corleeva to get debriefed about their next mission. Once the debrief was over, the agents headed to Burao, where they met with Ravil Lazarev so they could gather their weapons and supplies. Yakunin and the other agents ambushed Bauer shortly after he and Abigail Harper secured a pair of nuclear missiles, and they headed to the airport to transport Bauer to Russia. Before they could, Jiro Chu disabled the fly-by-wire system on the agents' plane. Danko changed his plans and instructed his team to take Bauer to their safe house in Hargeisa. At the safe house, Danko started to waterboard Bauer, wi