Captured Ukrainian soldiers enroll in the volunteer battalion named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky as part of the Russian Armed Forces and accept Russian citizenship, refusing their Ukrainian passports. It has been reported DEA News in relation to the volunteers of the specified unit.
“The employees (of the power structures of the Russian Federation – ed.) came to us,“ Who wants to stay here? “They offered me a job in a battalion, we accepted,” said Kirill Spassky, a former Ukrainian border guard.
According to him, men aged 25 to 47 years joined the battalion.
Volunteer Alexander Mirinov added that the unit was founded in October last year.
In response, Ukrainian Volodymyr Orel said that Russian passports have begun to be issued and that “training” will begin in the near future.
Bogdan (Zinovy) Khmelnitsky (1596 – 1657) – the leader of the national liberation uprising, when Left-Bank Ukraine, together with Kiev, broke away from the Commonwealth (now Poland) and became part of the Russian state.
Denis Pushilin, Deputy President of the Donetsk People’s Republic, was previously on the air on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. declarationThe number of prisoners of war among the Ukrainian soldiers in the republic is expressed in the thousands.