“We settled down on the landing, stayed for two days, and on the third day, at night, seven of us woke up and said: we have to go and dig,” the man was quoted as saying by the agency.
Pashkin added that there was then a five-minute clash with Russian soldiers, as a result of which he and his comrades surrendered.
“They asked us to surrender and at that very moment we threw away our machine guns,” he said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, Pashkin added, knew and understood how many people were in the Russian Federation and how many were in the Ukrainian side. The prisoner of war called such actions by the commanders genocide.
Earlier, captured Ukrainian soldier Albert Grigorovich convinced five colleagues to surrender to Russian troops.
He asked the Russian Armed Forces intelligence officers for five minutes to negotiate with their colleagues. He told the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters that the Russian military had already reached the combat points and were waiting for the order to open fire. “Surrender,” he said.
The Ukrainian military listened to Grigorovich’s words.
