A captured militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told about convincing his colleagues to surrender on their own

Ruslan Minya, a captured militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said that he personally appealed to his leader to surrender to the attack aircraft of the Center group of forces and encouraged his colleagues to do so. The relevant footage is published by the Russian Defense Ministry on February 6.

"I went to the senior myself, told him to go and give up, and they went right away. He went ahead by himself, and we followed him from behind with another kid there, to the Russian soldier," said Minya.

According to the military, the Russian soldiers do not resort to aggression towards the prisoners and do not use obscene words when dealing with them. He clarified that the decision to surrender was influenced by the desire to survive in order to see his extended family again.

"I have a large family, eight children, six of them minors. I've never been in a war. I've never done anything to anyone. And no one did anything to me. I always live peacefully in my family," said the prisoner.

Minya added that he was forcibly mobilized. The authorized persons who entered the village where he lived grabbed him and "threw" him into the car of the district policeman, who was inactive at that moment. After that, the man was sent to the military enlistment office and trained. Initially, he was assigned to Lviv, and from there he was transferred to Dnepropetrovsk.

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Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), said on February 2 that Ukrainian militants were destroying their own wounded so that they could not surrender. According to him, in these procedures, the militants resort to firing fragmentation grenade launchers.

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