Captured Russian soldier's testimony of the grim state of Putin's army
Ukrainians have released another surprising video involving a Russian prisoner of war. He signed a contract with the army in prison, not knowing that it would send him to war. Sounds unrealistic? Yet, this is how a 24-year-old who has served in Vladimir Putin's army since April tried to convince the Ukrainians.
The war in Ukraine has been ongoing for over two years, but it turns out that some Russian soldiers still claim they didn't know where they were going after being captured. One of them is 24-year-old Valeriy, who, after being captured by the Ukrainians, tried to explain his participation in the conflict in this way.
The Ukrainian army published a video featuring him. This is not the first of such materials, as the Ukrainians systematically release them, showing the dismal morale and organizational state of the current Russian military.
In almost every such video, no matter at what stage of the conflict it was uploaded, you can hear one characteristic sentence. This iconic phrase is: "I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't know that we were not wanted here."
Captured Russian talks about the state of the Russian army
This explanation might have made sense in the early days of the conflict, but now it's hard to believe its authenticity, especially since it comes from the mouth of a former convict who took advantage of the problem and ensured his release by going to the front.
The absurdity of this explanation is fully confirmed by the fact that the supposedly unaware Valeriy managed to tattoo one of the symbols of Russian aggression on himself, the letter V. However, what deserves attention in his statement is the condition of Vladimir Putin's army.
At one point, he mentions the enormous losses of the Russians he witnessed during his service. He says that many of his comrades died on the front line, most in the early days of the fight. They were sent into battle, or rather to their deaths. As he recounted, out of the entire 300-man battalion, only nine soldiers were left, including him.
