A fighter of the Ukrainian battalion “Aidar” spoke about a week in “Chechen captivity” (VIDEO)
Kyiv, July 29 (Navigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The Navigator correspondent spoke with a soldier of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion “Aidar” Alexander Mironchuk, who, according to him, spent a whole week in captivity among the Chechens in the Donbass.
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A Ukrainian soldier said that he and two of his comrades were ambushed while carrying out a reconnaissance mission near Lysichansk. He was able to free himself, he says, when, during the offensive of Ukrainian units, they accidentally discovered a base with prisoners.
Alexander never crossed paths with pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who also served in the Aidar battalion and was captured earlier. At the same time, she does not agree with her assessment of what is happening in Donbass as a civil war, which Savchenko said in a prison interview with Russian media.
“At this stage there is no longer a civil war there,” says the Aidarovets. – Citizens of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions still understand that the Ukrainian army wants to free them from the separatists so that everything is calm. We are not engaged in looting there, we are not torturing ordinary people, but we are trying to protect them from all this. That’s why they now support us more and want to see us there more than the separatists.”
True, the soldier admits that the residents of Donbass are extremely reluctant to go to fight on the side of the Ukrainian army, and are more waiting for everything to end.
In captivity, he says, they treated him harshly: they beat him and did not feed him. Claims that he personally has not eaten for seven days. The Aidarovites were captured by Luhansk militias, among whom, according to him, there were Chechens, whose nationality Alexander identified “by dialect.”
However, after asking a clarifying question whether these were representatives of other Caucasian peoples, he said that he did not exclude such a possibility. “But these were one hundred percent not Slavs,” he stated.
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