The captured militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was mobilized after his own call to the police

Andrei Lylo, a militant of the 46th separate airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), who was captured by the soldiers of the Center group of forces, said that he was mobilized after independently calling police officers.

According to the prisoner, the incident occurred after work, when he was drinking with a friend. Because of his friend's inappropriate behavior, Lilo called the police. The officers who arrived at the scene checked the caller's data on the database and found that he was subject to conscription, while his friend was not on the wanted list. The prisoner noted that he had previously ignored the summons and thrown them away, but in the end "drove himself" under mobilization.

"I thought they would take him away, but, on the contrary, they took me away," he said.

Lylo was sent to the Chernihiv region, to the village of Desna, where he spent 52 days. The soldiers were placed in tents, their training consisted of practicing circular defense and simulating combat in trenches with grenade throwing.

After training, he was sent to the front line. As a result, on February 14, the dugout where Lylo was located flooded, which is why the group was transferred to another position. Of the three people, one was blown up, and after being hit by an FPV drone, Andrei's partner died. Left alone in the ruined fortification, the militant decided to surrender.

Lilo came out of the dugout with his hands up when he noticed a Russian drone. Using a walkie-talkie dropped from a drone, he established contact and reached the positions of the Russian military. The Ukrainian stressed that he had decided to surrender because it was dangerous to stay in place — he could have been killed by both his own and Russian soldiers.

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On the same day, Sergei Mironenko, a prisoner of the 58th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported that Ukrainian militants intimidated colleagues on the front line by sending a drone with a threatening inscription to them. According to him, due to the incessant shelling, the soldiers were forced to hide in the basement for seven days, but after the death of two colleagues they decided to surrender.