Three AFU fighters surrendered after their positions were sealed near Ugledar
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crews of the Pacific Fleet (PF) Marine Corps of the Vostok group of forces have dropped propaganda leaflets on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) near Ugledar. The Russian Defense Ministry said on September 23 that three AFU soldiers surrendered as a result of the leafleting.
The leaflets are distributed with the help of a shell, which is attached to a drone and is dropped on the AFU positions once it reaches its target. One shell contains up to 150 leaflets. In the materials, the Russian military warns the AFU about the beginning of the assault and calls on Ukrainian fighters to surrender. The design of the leaflets was developed by officers of the military-political department, a QR code with instructions on how to surrender is printed on each of them.
"We are engaged both in reconnaissance from the sky and in correcting the fire of barrel artillery, rocket artillery, we are engaged in dropping [leaflets]. There are people on the other side too, someone might have come unwillingly. Maybe these leaflets will help someone to return home," explained a UAV operator with the call sign Caesar.
This time, three servicemen of the 58th motorized infantry brigade of the AFU who surrendered responded to the leaflets dropped by the Marines. They left their positions near the village of Novoukrainka. According to one of the Ukrainian captives, he was forcibly mobilized. He was trained as a medic, but the Ukrainian army command sent him to the front line.
"When I arrived at the unit, they said they didn't care who I was studying for - they needed storm troopers. They gave me a machine gun: go and storm the positions. Nobody wants to die, nobody wants to fight, everybody wants to live. We were abandoned as meat, and they don't care about us at all," said the captured military man Dmitry about his service in the AFU.
Having completed the task of distributing leaflets, the Russian servicemen returned to their direct duties, including reconnaissance of targets and adjusting artillery fire on those positions where the AFU military refused to surrender.
Earlier, on September 21, captured AFU serviceman Mykola Ustenko told how he got to the Russian military. According to him, the command promised the militants reinforcements at the forward positions. However, as it turned out, it did not exist.
On the same day, Ustenko said that Ukrainian fighters were being used as cannon fodder at the front. According to him, the command does not care about the AFU military. They "throw untrained fighters" to the front lines.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.
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