"Where is all the shit out of propaganda?!" The Russian paratrooper fled to France shocked in Ukraine: what he tells about the army of the Russian Federation

He served in Chechnya, then left the Russian army, but a year ago (in the summer of 2021) decided to sign a contract again for the sake of earnings. So he found himself in the occupied Crimea as part of the 56th Airborne Assault Regiment of the Airborne Troops of the Russian Federation. His father once served in this regiment. Video of the day "Plus" and his companions were in the territory controlled by Ukraine on February 24, 2022, then his unit was sent for Kherson's capture.

In the south of Ukraine, Filatyev spent two months before in mid -April was evacuated back to Crimea with eye infection. The Russian paratrooper refused to return to the war in Ukraine, to achieve treatment, as well as the full amount of payments for the service, he failed. The command accused him of evidence of service and submitted the documents to the prosecutor's office "for criminal proceedings". In mid -August, the military decided to leave Russia and fled France through Tunisia.

He now asks political asylum in France. In early August, while in the Russian Federation, Filatyev published 140 pages of his impressions from participating in the war with Ukraine in the Russian social network, condemning Russia's attack and criticizing the Russian army. He calls these memories a "book", its name ZOV is a combination of Latin letters, which referred to Russian technique at the beginning of the invasion.

Filatyev's "Memoirs" was drawn to the Russian opposition media, and therefore the world press. Over the last month, the extracts from Filatyev's stories have published publications from important history to the New York Times, and interviews with him from media to The Guardian and AFP agencies.

At the same time, many media outlets say that they cannot check the truth of the statements and biography of Filatyev, although in confirmation of his words he provides them with photos from military service. In this case, the Russian does not condemn the annexation of Crimea, describing it as an "important strategic direction"; He remembers how he was aware of the invasion that he would "be ripe", but "to give up shameful, tantamount to it because he was scared.

" And when on February 24 it became clear to him that the real war had begun, "he was traveling with a patron in the machine and was ready to shoot anyone who would be dangerous. " Filatyev also tells how he personally detained civilian Ukrainians during Kherson's storm, then handing them to the Russian homon and the Federal Sentence Service.

He describes that in the first settlements outside the Crimea he felt the danger that comes from the houses of Ukrainians, "at the same time with a sense of respect for their patriotism. " "I understood that if suddenly in one of the houses […] it seems to me a danger, then I will not think," he admits. He claims that his unit did not commit an outrages similar to the crimes of the Russian Federation in Bucha, but recognizes the evidence of the atrocities of the Rose Army in the Kiev region.

"I believe that the Russian government has disgraced its people and the army of the Russian Federation, refusing to bring clarity to these issues and ignore all these accusations," the military said in an interview with French RFI. Filatyev's testimony has already gained noticeable resonance. Volodymyr Osiechkin, chairman of the human rights network Gulagu.

net, who helped Filatyev leave Russia and recorded one of the first conversations with him, believes that the paratrooper's testimony is "opened by Pandora's box". Now the "widow"-the fugitive seeks to publish and translate his book in the West, promising to send the money received "to the aid of Ukrainian civilians who have suffered from this war. " I wanted to "become a coward and throw my comrades.

" cites some of the facts about the Russian army, told by Filatyev in his "book" ZOV and in the mentioned interviews. His observations we give as a quote from the first person. "In mid -October, they begin to publish a demi -season and winter form, but only there is no size and size . […] Arrive on the [parachute] jumping platform, was minus at night, went in open KAMAZ, everyone arrived from the cold from the cold… […] many servicemen were without warm clothes: You are worn or shape in size.

[…] The next day I wake up, I have a fever, a bilateral pneumonia. […] About thirty servicemen of my part with the diagnoses of SARS, bronchitis, sore throat were received before the infectious ward. Everyone was present on jumps. " “Our mouth lived in one tent, people 40. In a tent, a rude bourgeois. Even in Chechnya, life was better organized. Nutrition in the dining room is much worse than in the garrison… […] was nowhere to wash.

[…] Those who arrived later than others, as I did, had neither a sleeping bag nor a camouflage suit, no armor, no helmets. […] Someone had nothing to drown in February, there was nowhere to wash, because of which people went to the sea in winter. In the end, the hospitals were clogged with sick in February, and even an order to be banned into the hospital.

As soon as I saw my commander […] I ask him the question: "Where is my sleeping bag and a set of warrior?" What he answered, that he is gone, and where to sleep, and where to get ammunition is my problem. " “The next few days we went to shooting. […] I had no fixed weapon at all for four months! […] It turned out that my machine gun with a broken strap and just rusty, on the first night shoots, it was stuck [patron] after a few shots.

” On the evening of February 23, the Filatyev unit was planted in Kamaz, not specifying the tasks, but announcing that "from tomorrow the salary will be $ 69" - "a clear sign that something serious will be," the paratrooper writes. Rumors that they are waiting for them raised: from the assault of Kherson and the idea of ​​"taking Kyiv in three days" to the thoughts that "we will stand somewhere and make a formidable look.

" "I woke up for hours at the second night [in the Kamaz body], the column lined up somewhere in the jacket, everyone drowned the engines, the headlights were switched off. […] I hear the roar, the hum, I see that the sky became light from the volley: to the right and left of our column worked reactive artillery. It was unclear what was happening, who and where he shoots and on whom. […] It was quiet: "It began.

" […] I felt an alarming realization that the scenario of "Crimean" would not be, there was a clear anticipation of the Pizdets. " "I couldn't understand what was going on, we are running on Ukrainians? Can NATO? Are we attacking? Who is this hellish shelling? Where did jet artillery come from? Referendum in LDNR? Kherson's admiration? Ukraine attacked us? NATO helps her? ” “All this time I was driving with a patron in the machine and was ready to shoot anyone who would be dangerous.

Where, why and why we are going, was not clear. It was clear that a real war began. […] [Later] I learn that [we have] order to go to Kherson, to capture the bridge across the Dnieper. It became clear that we attacked Ukraine. " "To start the" special operation "from shelling of the territory of Ukraine by artillery, aviation and rockets . . .

What was the reception of civilian population if people woke up from the explosions of artillery, aviation and rockets on February 24? Who expected that after such a beginning, the people did not unite against the invaders? ” Filatyev repeatedly describes how the Russian military and even their commanders had no idea where and what other units do, what tasks they perform themselves.

Filatyev also criticizes the use of the "elite" of the army of the Russian Federation - the Air Force units - in the battles in the south of Ukraine: "The feeling of vicious from everything around, we just try to survive as creatures. We and the opponent are not needed, the command put us in such conditions that the homeless people live better. ” “There was a dining room with a kitchen and refrigerators in the offices [in Kherson occupiers].

We, like savages, ate everything that was there: flakes, oatmeal, jam, honey, coffee . . . "" It was absolutely sneaking for everything, we were already brought to the edge, most lived in the fields of the moon without any hint of comfort, shower and normal food. People, without letting them rest, were sent to the war. Everyone was chaotically looking for a place for sleep, quarrels for the queue in the shower. " “We arrived at the Kherson Sea Port.

[…] Everyone looked exhausted and wild, everyone began to search for buildings in search of food, water, soul and places for the night, someone began to pull computers and everything valuable that he was able to find. I was no exception: I found a hat in a broken truck in the territory, took it. Balaklava was too cold. " “No one has brought us a new shape, shoes, ammunition and warm clothing. A pair of humanitarian aid boxes contained cheap socks, T -shirts, pants and soap.

” “We just kept positions in the trenches on the front line. […] All overgrown with beards and dirt, the form and the Berks began to malfunction. We have not seen high command. There was nothing but dry: one box for two days. " "It was a guy who [his Russian comrades] broke his leg with a turn of the gun at the BMD. He was lying and moaning very quietly, constantly saying that he was cold. Then I was told that the guy died.

Instead of, as in "American films," to evacuate it into the hospital to beautiful and caring nurses, we took him further to the rear of the enemy on the boxes with mines in the Urals, which did not have brakes. " It was unfortunate to me that the top of us. . They demonstrate in every possible way that we are inhumane for them, we are just like cattle. It was unfortunate that before the war they started did everything to collapse our army. " , equip and feed your own army.

" to pass the Military Medical Commission and go for health. […] The command stated that I was evading the service and submitted the documents to the prosecutor's office for criminal prosecutor's office. Many, taking such Pont, try to send back. […] their goal - For the sake of a new star to throw as many people back as possible, let it be without preparation and equipment. " They played. We are not DNR and LNR annexed, we started a terrible war.