"Less than half of 120 people are left" - captured Russian soldier tells about counteroffensive and 'brutal' attitude of his commanders

The video was posted on the Youtube channel of the brigade's chief master sergeant Valerii Markus.

During the interrogation, it turned out that the company (Regiment 1430, Third Motorized Rifle Company, Second Platoon, Second Division) of the mobilized soldier in the amount of 120 people replaced other invaders who were 'tired' at the positions.

“Those guys who were supposedly there from the very beginning, they got tired, and we had to replace them,” he said.

The prisoner of war himself claims that he was 'caught' by a district police officer in the entrance of his apartment in Moscow when Putin announced 'mobilization measures' on September 21, 2022. Prior to that, he had tried to hide in his apartment to avoid being served with a summons.

Once on the territory of Ukraine in the trenches of the occupation forces, the mobilized soldier, as he himself says, “got very scared, dropped the rifle and started to run away,” but was wounded during the Ukrainian military's offensive. The latter provided him with first aid and water.

“One day they brought us and told us to replace them. Then they said that there would be an offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. And the offensive came. First they covered us with artillery, and then your guys left. I saw grenades flying and started to run away,” the captive says.

According to him, less than half of the company of 120 people remained.

“I just didn't have time to run away. I was shot. Everyone was running away, everyone wanted to retreat. Everyone wanted to live, but they didn't have time,” the Russian prisoner of war said.

The mobilized Russian complained about the 'brutal' attitude of the commanders, who, as he says, did not go on the attack and shot at the legs of their subordinates if they expressed any dissatisfaction with the situation.

“They took our phones, threw us into one cell, then another. Like cattle. There was no water, no food,” he said.

He also said that the occupiers from the Russian Guard unit Akhmat raped women in Tokmak and Molochansk, Zaporizhzhia region.