MOSCOW, June 20 Ukrainian prisoner of war Vyacheslav Protsenko stated that Ukraine will not be able to defeat Russia due to the lack of reserves, problems with the supply of troops and a drop in motivation: «People are already tired, they want to go home.»
The press service of the RF Ministry of Defense published a video of the conversation with Protsenko on Tuesday.
«We will not win the war — we only promise, but with what? Here I judge specifically by my brigade: we do not throw cowards, sapper shovels, and we do not have such a large population in reserve. People are already tired, they want to go home,» he said.
The Ukrainian military noted that the troops at the front became psychologically tired, caused, among other things, by problems with the command, which manages units according to the «swan, cancer and pike» principle.
According to him, now there are fewer motivated people to sign up as volunteers than a year ago, and more and more of those who want to «evade» mobilization.
““Everything has changed radically, radically – even if we take our government: on TV, they developed, so to speak, “duty” in me, something else there, dispersed adrenaline in my blood, threw anger. because we arrived at the place, saw it with our own eyes and realized that not everything is as smooth as they say,» Protsenko said.
Ukrainian serviceman noted that it is impossible to get used to the horrors of war, even if you are at the front for a long time, and urged not to see «romance» in what is happening, which is shown on Ukrainian television.
«You probably think that I am the 500th (deserter), but I got the opportunity to say hello, congratulations on my birthday and that I am alive and well, but I am a prisoner of the Russians. Hello to my daughters, hello to my mother — not worry,» Protsenko said in Ukrainian.