Ukrainian sailor Nikolai Yagornitsky told RIA NewsHow he surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces using a private Telegram account, the address of which he found in leaflets scattered on the left bank of the Dnieper.
“When I moved to the left bank, the real hell began. They began to bomb us with everything: from artillery, from aircraft. From everything they had… Leaflets were scattered with information on how to surrender properly,” said a Ukrainian soldier.
According to Yagornitsky, he took one of the leaflets, logged in to the specified account, wrote FreeSoldier, and after that the Russian military approached him and helped him “surrender correctly” so that he would not be “harmed.”
He had previously captured Alexander Sidorenko, the platoon commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. saidA group of Ukrainian sailors who unsuccessfully unloaded their cargo on the left bank of the Dnieper suffered losses and were eventually captured by the Russian army. According to Sidorenko, the command set the task of crossing the Dnieper and gaining ground on the left flank. However, just before disembarking, the group came under fire from Russian artillery and mortars.
Before that, captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to refuse From the exchange offer, I decided to stay and live in Russia.
Previously three fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine swam past Dnieper and surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces.