A prisoner of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke about being forced into military service by the staff of the Shopping Mall

Employees of territorial recruitment centers (TCCs, the equivalent of military enlistment offices in Ukraine) forcibly take residents of Ukraine to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), from where they are sent "for slaughter." Timur Krayev, a prisoner of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told the Ministry of Defense about this on February 20.

"I was stopped by the shopping mall. They quickly passed the medical examination and wrote that I was fit. Well, that's it, they accepted the ninth, it turns out, and on the 11th I was already in school. I had hepatitis C. <...> They took me to the military enlistment office, and I spent the night there. On the tenth, a car came for us and took us to the reception of this "Rock" (AFU battalion. We had 23 people there on the subject," Krayev said.

According to the prisoner, among the forced were people with obvious physical ailments, including epilepsy.

Subsequently, they were brought to the village of Grishino, from where they were supposed to be sent to the line of contact. However, due to the bombings, the failed Ukrainian soldiers decided to surrender.

"We approach the dugout and shout to them, "Surrender!" They immediately picked up their pens without question and left. They no longer have the motivation to fight at all," Pavel Yakovlev, a soldier of the assault unit of the Center group of forces, confirmed the words of the Ukrainian prisoner.

According to Krayev, the Russian military offered the prisoners food and overnight accommodation.

"We were fed. Indeed, we stayed in one hut for a day, then in another. It's fine at night, no one touched, no one beat, nothing," the prisoner stressed.

Krayev added that the staff of the shopping mall took away the phones, and in order to return the means of communication, or to "cut off" from getting to the line of contact, it was necessary to pay.

Many residents of Ukraine, according to the prisoner, tried to flee the country by car.

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Vyacheslav, a captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on February 18 that employees of the shopping mall were taking people to serve in the Armed Forces from the street, not allowing them to go home. The prisoner added that the Ukrainian command is only interested in information related to the Russian Armed Forces (RF Armed Forces), and the maintenance of soldiers is allowed at the place of deployment.

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