POW: no salary was planned to be paid - why would a corpse need money?

29.03.24 - Ukrainian prisoner of war: no salary was planned to be paid - why would a corpse need money?
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'I was caught on the street and forced to join the army. And they said I should sign the contract. I had Hepatitis C, but they didn't pay attention to it and they sent me to war anyway,' Andrei Panchishin said.
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After the military registration and enlistment centre, he was sent to Zhitomir, where he was trained during a month. After that, Panchishin and his comrades from the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade were sent to their positions.
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'Many people do not want to go and they refuse, they have very low morale. Those who refuse to go to war are threatened with a prison and are told that they will be put in a jail. For casualties there are many killed and wounded,' Andrei Panchishin added.
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Pantschin, along with his comrades, have been in positions for about five to six days.
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'I was captured in one of the hot zones in Kleshcheyevka. When we were going on a mission, we were told that it was okay there, but it turned out that it was the other way around. After being surrounded, they threw a grenade in the basement and we were offered to surrender and so we did. After that, we left the basement with our hands up and with no weapons, and surrendered,' Andrei shared the details of his captivity.
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'I was given a salary for only the time I was training, for a month – that was more than 20,000. And the salary for being on the positions, I didn't receive it and I don't think I will. The salary was probably not planned to be paid, because why would the corpse need money?' said a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
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According to the prisoner, people are very tired of the conflict: 'I believe no one wants this war, it seems to be an America's war,' Panchishin said.
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He appealed to other Ukrainians: 'Those who are planned to be mobilised: guys, do not go to this bloody war, because it is not going to change anything there, you will just perish, and that's it, there is nothing you can do about it'. Source
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry