Russian Conscript Reports About Breakthrough Of Border, Surrender To AFU
- 12.08.2024, 7:58
He was not even resisting.
A Russian conscript who was taken prisoner by the Ukrainian military described the first day of the military operation in the Kursk region, writes unian.net.
His conversation with Ukrainian blogger Dmytro Karpenko was published on YouTube. 19-year-old Yaroslav was drafted into the army on December 1, 2023. He says that he did not want to go, and knew about the war in Ukraine only from the Internet - he was not even really curious about it.
He attended a "young fighter course", spent two months in a military unit, and already in March he got to the border with Ukraine, where he was building dugouts and digging trenches. In the morning of 6 August he was at the positions. After the "fly-in" at the stronghold, they were told to go to the shelters, but by evening they gave the command "to fight".
The Russian soldier says that they divided into combat cells and were waiting, but after two hours he got disturbed by a suspicious silence. "I walked all over the position, looked in every dugout - not a soul was there. I still don't know where they all are. Zero emotion. Zero. That's it, emptiness," he says.
The conscript found his phone and tried to contact his comrades without success. Soon he heard footsteps and saw the light of torches. "I thought at first that our guys were coming. I didn't think [Ukrainian soldiers] would come in to us. I shouted: "Who is it? Are you our own?". Silence. They told me to come out with my hands up. I put my automatic rifle aside and came out," he recalls.
Yaroslav said that he was taken prisoner by two Ukrainian soldiers and did not resist because he "had no experience". The Russian soldier's mother told the reporter that she had already watched other interviews with Russian POWs.
"What do you want to hear? Have you been in my place? In the place of a mother or a father who has a son in captivity? I am aware of the events [in Ukraine]. What do you want me to do, come with a shotgun and apologise? Or what? What should I do?" she said indignantly.