Surrendered Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) soldier Valeriy Andronyuk spoke about the weak structures for protecting Ukrainian soldiers on the front line. Video of his interrogation published Press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Ukrainian army’s shelters had weak and insufficiently thick ceilings, for example, single-rolled boards covered with a thin layer of soil, the soldier noted. There was also no engineering equipment and necessary structures in the area. The Ukrainian added that his colleagues had to dig their own canteens.
Andronyuk said that all his colleagues in the department were, on average, over 50. He himself was 53. “They just shaved me, that’s all. There was no medical examination at all,” he recalls.
The man said that he had not served in the military and did not have a military ID. But at the regional recruiting center (TCC – an analogue of the military registration and enlistment office in Russia) they gave me a machine gun, showed me how to load cartridges into the magazine and sent me to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The prisoner said his colleagues were also going through a tough time mentally. According to him, “people are just tired.” He noted that almost all the important people in the army came from the villages, so women now have to work there.
Earlier, Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commander of the Akhmat special forces, Major General Apty Alaudinov It has been said About the desire of the Ukrainian army to surrender.
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Source: Gazeta
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