A DPR sergeant who returned from captivity has said that he was taken prisoner by mercenaries who spoke foreign languages
He was taken prisoner by foreign mercenaries who spoke English and Polish, a sergeant of the 103rd regiment of the DPR’s National Front, Alexei Shalygin, who returned from Ukrainian captivity, said. This was reported by RIA Novosti.
The sergeant was serving in the first battalion of the first company of his regiment, and with his unit came under heavy artillery and mortar fire from the enemy. According to Shalygin, the military began to retreat, but it turned out that they were surrounded, with many foreigners among the attackers.
“At once we understood… We heard English speech at once, someone was shouting in English. Then a Pole started cooing. In general, we never understood who was attacking. And there was also Ukrainian (language), everything at once,” RIA Novosti quoted Shalygin as saying.
He also said that there was a translator with the mercenaries, who translated from English into Russian and Ukrainian.
“He was running around with them. “Where is the interpreter, find the interpreter” – they kept shouting. I understood that not everyone understood these Englishmen or Americans, whoever they were,” said the former captive.
The foreign mercenaries had no chevrons or identifying insignia, the sergeant noted. “Just Ukrainian uniforms. They were NATO colours,” he said. The mercenaries used foreign weapons of a type unknown to Shalygin, including small hand grenade launchers.