POW : s good to be here, better than in trenches’ - SURRENDER

09.01.25 🏳️ ‘It's good to be here, better than in trenches’: captured AFU serviceman tell his comrades to surrender
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Mikhail Kostyuk was mobilised in Lutsk and then was sent for training in Kamenets-Podolsky: ‘I understood how to use a machine gun. Servicemen were taught EOD actions theoretically, but not practically. They didn't learn us anything.’
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The badly trained unit, where Mikhail Kostyuk served, was transferred to Sumy region and sent to install anti-tank mines.
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‘We were given a task to install anti-tank mines. The command showed a video of how to install it. We refused to perform the task. We were told that our refusal was not accepted. When we returned, we got under heavy fire. It turned out the officers left us. We decided to get into a dugout. We sat there for about 2-3 hours. Then someone came into the dugout, we saw Russian troops. We raised our hands and put down our machine guns. We didn't even take the machine guns off the safety locks and didn't unfold them,’ said the captured serviceman of the AFU.
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The POW noted a good attitude on the part of Russian servicemen: ‘I am treated well in the captivity. Russian soldiers treat me well, they didn't beat me, they fed me. It's good to be here, better than sitting in trenches, frozen and scared.’ source 🔹Russian Defence Ministry