"I will go to retire
22-year-old Russian convicted artem, who served a seven-year imprisonment in Buryatia for several charges-from non-payment of alimony to theft-decided to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and receive an amnesty in half a year. But he found himself in a camp for prisoners of war. Now he makes chairs for six days a week. As part of the occupation group, he fought under the estuary, in Kupyansk.
Together with the group of others, he was captured, because "the ammunition was over, everything was wrapped, the support was, but they seemed because there was nothing to fight. " He now says that he regrets that he has not been in prison. "What is good in the war? I am being killed here. I did not delve particularly before the war what was happening in Ukraine," he said in response to a journalist question. The native of Chelyabinsk Ivan is now glue paper bags.
He did not get to the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, like 30% of prisoners of war, from prison - he enrolled in a volunteer. According to him, he cannot explain his decision. "I do not know what thoughts went with. None . . . to help the people" DNR "and" LNR ", which were oppressed, lived people, wanted their autonomous republic . . . ", - he explained, adding that more to fight everything more However, he does not intend. He was injured with a mortar projectile and broke his leg.
Left in position, he was captured, Ivan told his story. In addition to $ 8 per month, which receive prisoners of war, everyone has an account that relatives can replenish. "Or they can make this money when working and buying products in the camp store. Very popular - candy, cigarettes and soda water," - explained Petro Yatsenko, a representative of the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war.
According to him, prisoners of war are given the opportunity to call loved ones (in the presence of a camp employee). Those who agreed to talk to journalists insist that they did not kill anyone.
The 29-year-old dealer Konstantin, who was in Kyiv region at the beginning of a full-scale invasion and was captured in September last year near Kupyansk, claims that, according to the command of the command, his unit had not had to "join the shooting fights", And "just block" the city of grenades with tear gas. According to him, according to the order, it was necessary to capture the building with staff in Kiev - guards, the National Police, etc.
"We were tasked with just block the city, without shooting," he explained. "We issued grenades with tear gas. I didn't have intensive battles. When we tried to go to Kiev through the Irpin Bridge, they just got mortar fire there and departed. " He claims that he does not know about the events in Irpen, despite the fact that his unit was in the area. The unsuccessful admiration of Kiev, he believes, on the conscience of the Russian generals.
In the case of exchange, the man is going to "retire" in the ranks of the Russian army. A native of Gorlovka fought as a shooter, an assistant grenade launcher. At the same time he claims that he was engaged in evacuation and provided medical care. He was in captivity after he came to a mine in June 2023. He expects that he is exchanged and will not be able to fight, because a disabled.