APU artillerymen. Archival photo MARIUPOL, May 12. The Ukrainian command deceived its artillerymen, claiming that if they were taken prisoner, they would be killed — such testimony was given to the investigators of the RF Investigative Committee by the commander of the Ukrainian artillery battery Denis Nazarov, who laid down his arms.» that you are artillerymen, no one will take you prisoner, you have only one way out — to sit here and fight. Nothing else. And if you go out there, they will immediately kill you, «Nazarov, who commanded a battery of four Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, said. According to him, everything happened exactly the opposite: the prisoners were well received, fed, treated well and never beaten. The battery commander added that the command left them in a hopeless situation, in fact, to their fate. There is no food. They asked the higher command — wait, wait. People couldn’t stand it anymore,» he said. crimes of Ukrainian nationalists. Investigative Committee officers interview eyewitnesses and visit crime scenes. What Ukrainian artillerymen did in Donbass
