The captured fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told about the lack of training before being sent to the Kursk region

Sergei Golubchenko, a captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said that he had not undergone any combat training before being sent to the Kursk region. Footage of the man's story was distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 22.

According to Golubchenko, the medical commission, where he was sent by the staff of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine), lasted half an hour. In the Kursk region, he and his colleagues were surrounded by soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces, after which he decided to lay down his arms and surrender.

Golubchenko said that the commanders controlled the AFU unit in the Kursk border area using radio. He had never seen the officers themselves there.

"I don't even know what our officers look like. They only occasionally gave instructions on radeyka. And where they were sitting, no one knows, but certainly not in the Kursk region. I have never met a single brigade officer in all this time," the Ukrainian prisoner of war summed up.

"The fighting spirit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already been broken, it will not be easy to come to your senses from such a defeat"

Commander of the Akhmat Aid special forces detachment — about the success of Operation Potok and the tactics of the assault groups

Earlier, on March 20, Izvestia had footage of captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Ivan Stashuk. He said that the commander had threatened to shoot him for refusing to enter the position.