Prisoners from Russia’s 20th and 25th Armies on the failure in the Lyman direction

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Prisoners from Russia’s 20th and 25th Armies on the failure in the Lyman direction

We spoke with prisoners of war from the 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies of the Russian Armed Forces, which are currently retreating in the Lyman direction.

Kabardian Anzor Tokbayev, born in 1999, Tajik Abdultalib Karayev, born in 2005, and Russian Yury Yashin, born in 2002, from the 488th Motor Rifle Regiment (military unit 12721), are among the last survivors in their units. They spent ten months at positions near Shandryholove, where Ukrainian heavy drones, mortars, and artillery worked on them relentlessly. In the end, they were surrounded by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. What saved their lives was that they listened to the instructions on surrendering, which were broadcast through a loudspeaker from a Ukrainian drone.

Belarusian Yury Baran, born in 1989, from the 37th Regiment (military unit 12273), was heading toward the city of Lyman as part of a five-man group and was the only one who managed to survive on the way to the city.

Former prisoner Alexander Murysin never did understand where he was or what the point of his being at the position was. After his commander was killed, communications disappeared, and he himself ended up surrounded, Alexander gladly surrendered. “I want to live, as they say,” Alexander explains.

Before they were sent to the front, commanders frightened them with captivity. They said they would be tortured there, maimed, have their “fingers cut off,” be abused, and have their “ass foamed shut.”

Reality turned out to be completely different. All five speak of very good, humane treatment by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The wounded were given medical aid, and the prisoners were fed and given water and cigarettes.

The prisoners compare the food and treatment in Ukrainian captivity with conditions in the Russian army and say that in captivity they receive far more humane treatment.

These five survived. But the overwhelming majority of those who were encircled with them near Lyman did not.

Thousands of Russian soldiers are continuing to die and go missing in the north of Donetsk region. During the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s offensive operation, the “I Want to Find” project received 1,128 requests to search for Russian army servicemen missing there.

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Prisoners from Russia’s 20th and 25th Armies on the failure in the Lyman direction

We spoke with prisoners of war from the 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies of the Russian Armed Forces, which are currently retreating in the Lyman direction.

Kabardian Anzor Tokbayev, born in 1999, Tajik Abdultalib Karayev, born in 2005, and Russian Yury Yashin, born in 2002, from the 488…