POW speaks about execution of deserters by AFU command

🏳️ Captured Ukrainian serviceman Anatoliy Startsev speaks about execution of deserters by AFU command
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According to the POW, the AFU command shoots soldiers who leave their positions in the Lugansk People's Republic, and documents the deaths allegedly due to careless handling of weapons.
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Startsev said that their commanders did not appear at the forward positions, tasks were set by radio, and there was nothing to talk about the provision of personnel:
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'When we spent 10 days without food or ammunition, we wanted either to surrender, or go back, well, leave the position and go back. We have never seen our senior, we talked only over the radio. He said he knew where we would go, he would see our movement by UAVs. He said he would personally kill us.'
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The prisoner shared that he had undergone retraining in Zhytomir region. There militants were psychologically set up against Russians.
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Startsev also noted that the Ukrainian command kept them in the dark and did not even explain where and whose positions were located.
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‘They just said that I would go to the training ground, to study further, but only in another place. And so I got to the warzone,’ the prisoner told how he got to the front line. Source 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry