Captured prisoner tells of using AFU fighters as cannon fodder
A captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Mykola Ustenko, said on Saturday, September 21, that Ukrainian fighters are used as cannon fodder on the frontline.
According to the man, he wrote a refusal to serve in an assault unit, a couple days later he was reassigned to the Ukrainian National Guard.
"Once a month there was a firing range where we were given ten rounds of ammunition each. And everything ended there," said Ustenko.
The captured AFU drew attention to the fact that untrained military were sent to the Zaporozhye direction. The militants began to take any action in order not to get to the front. As a result, they were "thrown to the forward positions", which remained the only ones along the defense line. They subsequently met soldiers from the Russian Armed Forces (RF Armed Forces), to whom they surrendered.
"We are just being deceived. Things are not as nice and sweet at the front as we are told. The officers of the units to which we are assigned do not care about us, and we are like cannon fodder," the AFU prisoner said.
Earlier, on September 20, Ruslan Shevchuk, a captured AFU soldier, told about his rescue by the Russian military. The fighters stayed at the position until March 16-19, after which they were told that "the command left, you were abandoned." Together with other mobilized Shevchuk threw down his weapons and left. Later they met Russian soldiers, to whom they surrendered as prisoners.
The special operation to defend Donbass, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the worsening situation in the region.
