Several Russian soldiers imprisoned in Ukraine have confessed feel sorry of having participated in the invasion initiated by Putin, and have even managed to shed some tears before the country’s media. Galkin Sergei Alekseevich, one of the soldiers who have given up obeying Putin, wanted to apologize to all the citizens of Ukraine: “Elders, women, children, sorry for invading these lands”has recognized between tears.
“I apologize to all of Ukraine. Forgive me for coming here, I am deeply ashamed. Putin only told lies, they forced us to come here”, asserted another of the soldiers. Uniformed in the suit with the Russian flag, the young soldiers focused on sending messages, above all, to their families: “Mom, if you see this video, don’t believe what they tell you if they say everything is fine. Russia has already committed this crime. I am alive, they can kill me but they protect me. The only thing I can die for is being attacked by my planes,” said another young man.
The ‘Interfax Ukraine’ news agency has uploaded some videos of commanders who claim to feel remorseful. Andrei Ilyich Chebotarevsky, a member of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, is one of them. The young man has assured that they are “afraid to return” to Russia, and has assured that “the Russians have become criminals”. “We were sent here without knowing it. They didn’t tell us anything. We didn’t know where we were going,” he has acknowledged. Likewise, he has explained that they gave him the opportunity to call his parentsWhen he did, he was told that he is considered a “dead man” there.
The young soldiers also spoke before ‘Ukraine Media Center‘, a public initiative media outlet supported by the Ukrainian government based in Lviv whose main objective is to help both international and local media cover Russia’s war against Ukraine.
In the video you can see how the soldier Olexandr Morozov, 21, explains that he went to Ukraine thinking that he would do training exercises in Russian camps. Another 20-year-old fighter, Mykola Valentinovych, stands out with a broken voice that has seen “a lot of dead people”: “I am 20 years old and I have already seen mass graves. I saw real corpses. It is terrible.”
Nexta TV, a Belarusian media outlet with broadcasts on Telegram and YouTube, also collected some of the testimonies of these repentant soldiers, and has spread them on social networks. Nexta Acquired great importance in the country in the coverage of the Belarusian protests of 2020-2021, and was founded by a 17-year-old student, Stsiapan Putsila, who ended up in exile in Poland after becoming a persona non grata for the regime. of Lukashenko.
Source: Lasexta
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