"Understood that there was little chance": the Armed Forces fighter told how he fled from captivity of the Russians and fired from them
The reconnaissance of the 3rd motor infantry battalion of the 58th Brigade of the Armed Forces with the call sign "Vados" during the battle with the Russians was captured, fled and continued the battle. This story is told by the press service of the 58th Brigade. Vadim "Vados"-from Kirovograd region and is fighting since February 2022. Initially, he destroyed the enemy in the 57th Brigade, later moved to the 58th motor infantry. All his battle path is connected with intelligence.
It was the professionalism and experience multiplied by the power of the Spirit and the courage that helped the "Vados" to get alive and even intact from the almost hopeless situation. "We covered the route near the city in Donetsk. I saw my brothers, but did not take me. According to him, the Russians were four, all the rest - to bury. The Russians demanded that the Ukrainian be shot, they say, they had an order - to execute all prisoners in the Donbass - a kind of "revenge for Kursk".
"I was rescued by one storm that did not allow it to be done. Later I realized that it was not an act of humanism, they just wanted to use me as a living shield to approach our positions," Vados said. After that, the Ukrainian defender was questioned according to the standard scheme: title, unit, number, location of positions. The man says that if he confessed that the scout would be killed immediately.
"I was removed from the armor, the helmet, tied in the front and ordered to go in the direction of our positions, and they went after three meters. Fate decides. , just sit down. According to him, after that he had the idea of escaping, but he understood that "the chances were very little", because if they reached Ukrainian trenches, he could die during a firefight.
"And here during the next explosion of a mine, when everyone fell and swollen my hands, I jumped and ran in the direction It fell again, and it was saved again. . He was able to get to his unit only at night. No one was waiting there because they thought he had died, and he survived one in five. Vadim confesses that he often dreams of the fallen brothers, dreaming of the face of Russians and boys.
Asked how those terrible events on his motivation to continue to fight, Vadim says, "And what to do? The war is ongoing, and we have no other option but continue to fight. We have a chance to survive only in battle. I know well, What the enemy does with the prisoners. Recall that the captive fighter of the Armed Forces without food stayed in the basement in the coal for 46 days.