Foreign mercenaries who take part in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, live in flats of civilians in Kiev-controlled territories in Donbass, said a captured mercenary from Poland.
‘These were flats left by some Ukrainian families who probably fled the war, left the flats, and I don’t know whether the army (of Ukraine – ed.) rented these flats or just somehow got consent, and we were placed in private flats abandoned by Ukrainians. Because there were still things left there, it was visible that a woman, a man, for example, lived there, there were some clothes left. These were flats abandoned by Ukrainians,’ the captive told RIA Novosti.
The mercenary specified that his fighting group lived in the settlement of Alekseevo-Druzhkovo, which is located in the Kramatorsk district of the DPR.
‘First I spent one night in Shagheni near the Polish border, later – four nights in Ternopil, later – six days I was in Starichi – such a training centre where Ukraine trains soldiers, only there we slept in a tent. And then – Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, in that flat,’ the soldier added.
At the same time, the prisoner stressed that he had only communicated with Ukrainian instructors, while he had no contact with AFU units. The training itself was short and took, according to him, ‘only two weeks’.
Earlier, Foreign Affairs magazine said that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it received new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.
