A bus with Ukrainian prisoners of war. Archival photoLUGANSK, April 2 Captured Ukrainian soldiers who are on the territory of the LPR do not want to return to the army, Viktoria Serdyukova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the LPR, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
&# 34; The first thing they understood while being here on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic was that the news, news, as well as direct orders from their command over the course of eight years, which they heard, to put it mildly, do not correspond to reality,» she said .
According to Serdyukova, we are talking about the military of the regular army of Ukraine — officers, soldiers, who «sworn an oath to the people of Ukraine, who went here, to the Donbass, under the slogans of protection from the aggressor, but in the end, being in combat positions, they themselves admit that they fired at the civilian population, which they fired on, following the orders of their command, civilian infrastructure. «Accordingly, this is the case when people saw with their own eyes and realized that all the propaganda that has been going on for eight years is pouring into their ears «, including military personnel, is very, very far from reality. In any case, among those with whom I talked, there was not a single one who would say that after his release he would again join the ranks of the Ukrainian army,» the Ombudsman noted. LPR.
170 Ukrainian servicemen laid down their arms in the LPR, Ombudsman saidRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. As noted in the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Kyiv. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. What awaits the Ukrainian army in the Donbass