“They threw us out like ‘cannon fodder’, although the people in our unit at least don’t want this war, they just want to go home and they want peace,” he adds.
According to the statements made by this soldier, they were taken to the battlefield by making them believe that they were going to train.
“At first they told us that we were going to train. Finally, after we were sent to the front, everyone was demoralized. (…) Nobody wanted to fight, but they told us that we would be enemies of the state and since it is wartime, they might even shoot us”.
This and other videos with the same theme were released by the Ukrainian Security Service.
There is also other material in which one of the Russian fighters receives help from Ukrainian citizens, who provide him with food and help him contact his mother.
“These young people are not to blame. They don’t know why they are here,” a male voice is heard saying in the background, according to TheSun.
According to the source, the clip shared on Twitter it shows local Ukrainians welcoming the soldier with food after his supposed surrender.
It was subtitled: “Russian soldiers, surrender, the Ukrainian people will feed you, just surrender.”
A young Russian soldier collapses. They give him food and drink and allow him to call his family, while he cries inconsolably because this armed conflict is not his, it is the one he believes owns. #Russia and the world #Ukraine #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/q2K6QD0uuu
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