🏳️ Ukrainian POW tells about service of teenagers in AFU assault brigade

10.02.25 Captured Ukrainian serviceman Pyotr Polinkevich claimed to have seen 16-year-old soldiers in his brigade.
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'The said there were orphans. Obviously, they were afraid, intimidated,' he said.
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He recalled that he was very scared when servicemen of the Sever Group of Forces began to assault his position. Wishing to save his life, he took off his armour, laid his weapon, and came out of a dugout with his hands up. Now he is alive and well. He is not in danger.
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'Don't go to the war, you don't need it. Surrender, and everything is going to be okay,' the prisoner told his comrades. Source
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry