A militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke about the help of the Russian Armed Forces to Ukrainian prisoners

The Russian military risked their lives to get the captured Ukrainian militants out. Georgy Karkulin, a captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), told about this on May 31.

"There was no denial of anything. <...> They gave me cigarettes and fed me. We risked our lives to get them out," he said in a video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Karkulin was mobilized when he returned from work. After several shifts of deployment, he and his colleagues were transferred to the Russian border. Almost immediately, the prisoner noted, the wounded appeared, some of the militants ran away.

"I talked, got the consent of those who were with me, the consent to surrender. Because the number of victims was growing, no one was coming forward, but I saw no other way to save them and understood that they would stay here," he added.

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The day before, Maxim Surma, a prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced a ban on commanders for private soldiers to return after being sent to the front line. As the militant noted, the commanders, if the soldiers returned to the unit, threatened to open fire on them to kill.