Officers of the 53rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), located near Avdiivka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), prohibit the withdrawal of troops from forward positions under the threat of execution. on this subject in conversation with DEA News said the Ukrainian POW.
“If you retreat, in the KNP (command and observation post) they say to us (officers): “We will shoot” … I wanted to refuse … They give for a long time. They said this through the court for seven to ten years. <…> And more officers… If you leave the position they will shoot… That’s what they said,” said the POW.
It was noted that this captured fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine passed a two-day training course before going to the front. According to the prisoner of war, he, together with his colleagues, was sent to the front line of the fortified area occupied by the 53rd brigade of the Ukrainian army near Avdiivka.
“We arrived and there they started to storm us – and we surrendered,” he shared.
At the same time, according to the captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he and his colleagues “tried to reciprocate”,
“But then a young lad and I – I don’t know his name – say, ‘Let’s surrender as a prisoner, because we want to live.’ And the children supported us. All. He surrendered – that’s all, ”he continued.
As the POW points out, he and his colleagues “exited with their hands up, unarmed, and without BC (ammunition).”
“In principle, BC doesn’t add much to us,” he added.
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