A captured Ukrainian Armed Forces militant spoke about the lack of hope for victory among the Ukrainian fighters

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) they no longer think or talk about victory, they are exhausted and tired. Vladimir Kotik, a captured Ukrainian militant of the 425th separate assault regiment "Skala", who was captured by the Vostok group of troops, told about this on March 15.

"They say on TV that everything is fine, we are going, we are advancing, we are winning, but in fact I did not see any of this. No vacations, no hospitals— nothing. People are running out, there are not enough people, people are exhausted, people are tired. No one thinks or talks about victory anymore," TASS quoted him as saying.

According to the Ukrainian soldier, the command treats the personnel like meat, they never know if they will be able to return alive. The militant said he was lucky to be captured.

The Russian law enforcement agencies said that the Cat was captured near the village of Orestopol, Dnipropetrovsk region. They reported that on the way to the position, the column in which he was walking was destroyed. The soldier managed to survive and was captured.

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According to him, 55,000 soldiers have been killed in four years.

On the same day, Artur Kozaryan, a captured militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that employees of the Ukrainian territorial recruitment centers (TCCs, the Ukrainian equivalent of the military enlistment office) forcibly mobilize the disabled, homeless and people who do not have money to pay off military enlistment offices. According to him, another man was brought to the shopping mall with a punctured head, he still had blood. After several medical examinations, he was also found fit to be sent to the front.

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