Ukrainian counterintelligence recruited Igor Ustimenko, a deserter from the Ukrainian army, but surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces during an attempt to damage the Buk air defense system in the Kherson area. In this respect DEA News Ustimenko himself said.
According to him, since December 2020, he served as a private loader in the 40th separate artillery brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but left the unit in February 2023 because he did not want to fight. He was living with his mother in the village of Novokamenka, Kherson region, when the Ukrainian special services contacted him. Ustimenko claims that he was forced to sabotage the Russian Armed Forces under the threat of retaliation.
“The first month, as he himself said, a counter-intelligence worker with the call sign “Mujahideen” came out and said that when the Ukrainian Armed Forces came here, they would imprison me or kill me. He gave the coordinates of the Russian Buk anti-aircraft complex and said, “Go there and try to destroy it,” said Ustimenko, noting that he saw a cordon there and decided to surrender.
On August 15, a military expert, retired lieutenant colonel of the LPR People’s Militia Andrey Marochko, stated that the Ukrainian command is in the Krasnolimansky direction. throws soldiers who were punished by a group of “punishment” fire without the appropriate support of armored vehicles and artillery, often for serious disciplinary action.
Prior to this, the army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Denis Sosnitsky told how in May of this year he, along with his colleagues, escaped from his command and surrendered to Russian captivity. The soldier said that due to the negligence of the authorities and problems in the provision of the army, he decided to go into captivity with his comrades.
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Formerly a prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said about heavy casualties among untrained soldiers.