MOSCOW, Jul 15 that they often fail to use the weapons with which they were taught to work, said the captured Ukrainian soldier Andrei Demich.
«We were taught air defense systems for a month and a half, but at the end of our studies we were simply sent to a rifle battalion. We did not see MANPADS with our own eyes. What we were taught for a month and a half was not useful to us,» Demich said in a video published by Russian Ministry of Defense.
Armament, which Ukrainian soldiers are provided with, the prisoner rated «a two on a ten-point scale.»
Ukrainian commanders, as Demich suggested, are sitting «in the rear, away from positions» and throwing their subordinates «for meat.» According to him, it got to the point that the military had to carry several wounded and killed from the front line at once.
By the moment of captivity, two people remained in Demich's platoon, the rest either lay in hospitals, or «clung to any opportunity, were written off.»
Demich was mobilized when he was going to the store with his wife. As the prisoner admitted, he was stopped by a policeman and two employees of the military registration and enlistment office, handed a summons, put in a car and taken to the military registration and enlistment office.