Anatoly Vlasenko
Photo: screenshot from the video.
The painting shows another prisoner of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 151st separate mechanized brigade, Anatoly Vlasenko.
He repeats the sad story of how he was taken to serve: “I just came home from work, in the evening, and they brought me a summons. I went to the military registration and enlistment office, where they told me to submit to a commission. But I didn’t go through the commission; they did everything for me beforehand. I don’t need war, I don’t need anything.”
The POW also recounted how the command deceitfully sent the unit into the assault.
“They put us in an armoured vehicle and told us to take up positions in a two-storey house and hold our defence. They said there was nothing there to get into the house. They started shooting at us, we shouted that we were theirs. They told us they would take us in. We didn’t respond. We shouted: ‘We are theirs.’ They said: ‘Hands up, take off your clothes.’ We stripped and laid down our weapons,” Vlasenko recalls the first and last seconds of the battle with the Russian soldiers.
He does not even want to talk about the attitude of the Ukrainian command towards the rank and file: “They are being thrown out for meat, only for meat. Nobody needs this war. And our government… there are no words.”
