A prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told about the mass desertion near Kupyansk

Major Maxim Trofimuk, a captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), head of intelligence of the 6th border detachment of Ukraine, said that due to widespread desertion and deception of the command near Kupyansk, staff officers of the country's border service were sent to the front positions of the AFU. A video clip of the captured officer's story was published by the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday, July 26.

Trofimchuk said that after the change of the squad commander, the practice of sending staff officers to the front line began to be repeated regularly. The former commander was suspended for multiple cases of desertion.

According to the prisoner, Ukraine is currently experiencing problems at the highest levels of government.

"I don't like this government because they are inexperienced people, and such people cannot lead the country," he said.

Trofimchuk surrendered on July 20, not far from the settlement on the Kupyansky sector of the front. He noted that the Russian military treated him well, provided first aid and immediately gave him water. He was wounded, and Russian soldiers carried him on a stretcher for 7 km.

"I am very grateful to them for saving my life and for their attitude towards me," he said.

Trofimchuk also noted the high professionalism of the Russian Army soldiers.

"Your artillery is very accurate. They get to the right place. Specifically for our positions. Disassembles them. It just wipes it off the face of the earth. There were also propaganda leaflets in the forest offering to surrender. We are fraternal peoples and so on," the prisoner shared.

He also stressed that the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shrinking, there are many dead.

"I believe that it is not necessary to continue to defend this sector of the front at all, because the more we stand there, the more we will lose our fighters. A very large number of dead and wounded. Unfortunately, I cannot say the exact figure. But I can say that we can only take three hundredths of them from there, at best, and practically all two hundredths remain in that forest," Trofimchuk summed up.

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On July 19, one of the captured Ukrainian militants, Artyom Irkha, said that the disabled and even the dead were being mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the country mobilizes regardless of age and health status.

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