A prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told about the deception and corruption of the command

Sergei Belyakov, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), who was captured by the military of the Center group of forces, spoke about the attitude of the command towards the personnel, as well as about the deceptive corruption schemes that the commander came up with. The footage of May 29 is available to Izvestia.

According to the prisoner, their commander, Major Andrei Kasovsky, liked to drink and forced the military to gamble.

"Commander <...> starts waking everyone up at night, makes them run. He gets drunk and plays a game. When he loses, he loses his temper, and it affects us. Sometimes it even causes physical damage. He also forced us to throw money away. He fined us so much that everyone has to drop 3-5 thousand. We thought it was for our common needs, but it goes all to him. We don't see this money, and they don't buy anything there," the prisoner said.

According to the prisoner, his squad consisted mainly of criminals, drug addicts and alcoholics. The command sent them "one way", like suicide bombers.

"They know that we will be gone, they will take more of the same. We're drug addicts, cons. They plug the holes with us. They don't consider us human," the prisoner said.

Belyakov said about himself that before signing the contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he was convicted and served time for a crime. He had four criminal records in total, and all four times he was in a penal colony, from where he went to the front.

"The tattoo is a German swastika with an inscription. When I came to my homeland, I thought about my grandfather. He fought for the Soviet Union, and they were killed by the same Nazis. The thought of what I had done began to gnaw at me a little bit. If he were alive, he would have strangled me on the spot or shot me. This tattoo, the eagle, this swastika has become a stigma for me. A stigma for life," Belyakov said.

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