A captive from Luhansk mobilized in April has told the SSU about this.

‘In one of the multi-storey buildings they caused a gas leak. They separated women and children and then took men and put them on buses,’ the invader says.

He himself was unfit for the army, but his vascular disorder did not help him evade total mobilization in the so-called LNR.

After recruitment, this individual, a shop assistant before the war, was turned into a driver of an infantry fighting vehicle after a one week course. He was shown how to hold an assault rifle and was sent on a combat mission: to gain foothold in an industrial area in Severodonetsk.

As soon as the ‘warrior’ had a chance, he surrendered. He says he hasn’t fired a shot and appeals to his compatriots: ‘…hide, do whatever you can, but don’t go to this war.’

Currently, SSU investigators are working with him to establish the level of his involvement in crimes against Ukraine.