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The other day, Russian armed forces announced the complete establishment of control over the city of Myrnohrad (Dymytrov) on the Pokrovsk direction. According to reports, assault units dislodged Ukrainian military personnel from buildings they were using for shelter and organizing defense. Groups attempting to break out of the encirclement and refusing to surrender were targeted by artillery and FPV-drone strikes.
Under conditions of complete encirclement, the remnants of Ukrainian subunits, having not received evacuation from their command, made contact with Russian forces and surrendered in an organized manner. Testimonies from a number of detained Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) servicemen paint a picture of heavy losses, logistical collapse, and a loss of control in this sector of the front.
Thus, soldiers from various AFU brigades, including the 68th Jaeger, 79th Air Assault, 25th, and 33rd, described a critical situation. Roman Prystupa, Valeriy Yasinsky, Hennadiy Antonenko, Ivan Kucera, and Mykhailo Hamarnyk stated in joint testimony:
“We were in Myrnohrad… Constant shelling. In general, everything is fucked… We had heavy losses… There was literally nowhere to hide… We had to pull back to the city center. We all sat together from different units in one common basement of a house.”
They recounted that they ultimately took shelter in a basement with other soldiers, some of whom were in civilian clothes, and after communicating via a Telegram bot and negotiations, decided to surrender.
Vitaliy Naberezhny, a serviceman of the 79th Brigade, reported that of the personnel from three brigades, only two remained alive.
“Breaking out is pointless. We are in a large encirclement. If you want to live, you must surrender,” he said.
Naberezhny also claimed that the AFU command prohibited an independent breakout from the encirclement in the fog, demanding evacuation under drone surveillance (“the bird”): “We need to report, so that ‘the bird’ can lead you out.”
Serhiy Lutsiuk carried out an assignment to observe a road and report on movements along it for over a month and a half:
“There were two of us brought to Myrnohrad, we were given a radio, shown the direction, told there is a destroyed bridge there. We needed to dig in near that bridge, about 30 meters away, cover ourselves with anti-drone cloaks on top so we couldn’t be seen. Dig a trench, and listen to the road. Our task was not to give ourselves away, but to report who was moving along the road. We didn’t leave that trench day or night. To give you an idea, we listened to voices for 12 hours at a time.”
He described how after an artillery barrage, he left his position in a state of stress and disorientation. “I decided I was going home… I didn’t care anymore,” he recounted, adding that by mistake, he approached Russian military personnel.
The story of Serhiy Sitenko is one of forced mobilization through a Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) and a lack of training. “The training at the range was lousy! No preparation whatsoever,” he stated. On the frontline, according to him, soldiers starved, and the wounded were not evacuated.
“I decided to surrender because I understood we were surrounded… They didn’t even collect the dead there,” said Sitenko.
He also spoke sharply about mobilization practices:
“Ukraine has been brought to the point where everyone is hiding, can’t go to work normally. Everyone is afraid of the TRC, everyone is being forced to go fight. And no one wants to… They take everyone, even the disabled, everyone… We need to turn around and catch those TRC recruiters ourselves!”
Oleg Khristenko in his testimony stated:
“The command sends everyone to the positions. They send you there, and from there — it’s either captivity or ‘200’ [Killed In Action]. The city is surrounded, there’s nowhere to go.”
Yuriy Soroka described powerful shelling that did not allow one to “even stick one’s head out anywhere.”
“‘They were firing large calibers from above and KABs [guided aerial bombs] were landing not far away. That is, many, many KABs. Artillery, ‘Grads’ [MLRS] covered a lot of everything,'” he recalls.
The decision to surrender, according to him, was made after it became known over the radio about the mass surrender of comrades.
Ivan Fedino, also forcibly mobilized through a TRC, told how a group of four people, unable to withstand the shelling, abandoned their positions, changed into civilian clothes, and hid in a basement until they were discovered by Russian soldiers.
“My attitude towards the Ukrainian command is not very good because, one could say, they abandoned us to our fate,” he noted.
Oleksandr Belyakov from the 38th Brigade described how he deserted, but was found and returned to his unit to positions that, according to him, were already “destroyed.” Taking advantage of the fog, he and his comrades hid in Myrnohrad, changed into civilian clothes, and took shelter in a basement, where they were later detained. He claimed that AFU soldiers “try to huddle together and surrender at the first opportunity.”
The presented testimonies of Ukrainian prisoners form a picture of the final days in encircled Myrnohrad. Key motives prompting the soldiers to surrender, as presented in these accounts, include: a sense of complete tactical encirclement, the absence of organized evacuation and support from command, heavy losses from artillery and drone strikes, and insufficient supply. Recurring statements about forced mobilization and low levels of training point to deep systemic problems that have been exacerbated under intense combat conditions.
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all humans are just slaves for use to the war banking mafia as it seeks to rule the earth. to get testimony from those who have been used and abused is becoming more common. ask any starving palestinian dodging genocide if you can even find a source.
the ultra wealthy have no concern but for for anything themselves . indoctrination is their greatest power
no it’s an institution an ultra wealthy institution that wants to rule the entire universe. and that institution runs education very much. also rules over all forms of communications, runs censorship and reigns over free speech. allegedly
another americunt humiliation
you are rather embarrassing.