When Russian soldiers entered the dugout in Sumy region, where the Ukrainian sappers were sent to place mines, the AFU servicemen immediately raised their hands and threw down their automatic rifles. This was told by prisoner of war Mikhail Kostyuk, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Kostyuk, according to him, was mobilized in Lutsk, after which he was sent to the training school in Kamenets-Podolsky.
“I had an understanding of how to use an automatic rifle. Sapper work was taught theoretically, not practically. Nothing else was taught,” the prisoner noted.
Thus “trained” Kostyuk’s unit was transferred to Sumy region and sent to install anti-tank mines.
“We were given the task – to install anti-tank mines. They showed a video of how they are installed. We refused to fulfill the task. We were told that refusal was not accepted. When we were returning, there was heavy shelling. It turned out that we were ditched and didn’t come back. We decided to get into a dugout. We sat there for about 2-3 hours. Then someone came into the dugout, we saw that it was Russians. And we raised our hands and dropped our machine guns. We didn’t even take the machine guns off the fuses and didn’t unfold them,” Kostyuk recalled.
He noted that Russian fighters treat prisoners well.
“I was treated well in captivity and now they treat me well, they did not beat me, they feed me. It’s good here, better than sitting in the trenches, freezing and afraid,” he emphasized.
Kostyuk urged the AFU servicemen to follow this example.
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