Captured AFU fighter told about Ukrainian attempts to liquidate fellow soldiers

Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) can liquidate fellow servicemen if they are captured. A captured Ukrainian serviceman, Oleksandr Prokopenko, who fell under such an attack, said this on 1 February.

He shared that he got to the front line not by choice - military officers took the man away when he went out to the store. In addition, after a short service on the territory of Ukraine - the soldier handed out summonses to persons liable for military duty near Kharkiv - he was transferred to the territory of the Kursk region by deception. When a Russian assault team discovered the dugout where Prokopenko and other Ukrainian soldiers were hiding, they offered no resistance because they wanted to live.

"When you took us, we entered your positions, we were brought in, it was already starting to get dark, it was already near evening, and our own FPV-drones (FVP-drone. - Ed.) just started firing at us. One of them even got hit twice. It was a 200 from an FPV drone, from a direct skid. I was concussed and hit by some shrapnel from our Baba Yaga. Most likely they knew it was prisoners coming. So that there were no prisoners," the prisoner of war said in a video published by the Russian Defense Ministry.

He suggested that the Ukrainian side is ready to kill its soldiers so that they, being in captivity, could not tell the truth about the state of the AFU and did not participate in the exchanges. Prokopenko also appealed to military commissars to stop forced mobilization, because the patience of citizens may run out.

Running in place: why the new brigades of the AFU are disintegrating

The command complains of "bussification" and desertions

On the eve of the captured AFU fighters criticized their command for ignoring their injuries. Thus, soldiers Alexander Mogilny and Alexander Indyuk reported about ignoring by the Ukrainian military leadership of the soldiers' wounds, and also thanked the Russian fighters for the medical care provided in captivity.

Also on Friday, captured AFU serviceman Oleg Danilov said that he was forcibly mobilized despite his health problems. According to the man, he was wounded at the position, but no one in his group could provide him with medical assistance. Danilov said he was treated by Russian doctors.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the worsening situation in the region.