Captured Ukrainian serviceman asks his compatriots to lay down their arms and safe their lives

Captured Ukrainian serviceman asks his compatriots to lay down their arms and safe their lives ▫️ Vasily Romanov received a draft notice twice, but he refused to visit the enlistment office. On the third time, the enlistment office employees took him from home along with his belongings. ▫️‘We had poor training. We shot six rounds once a week on the training ground,’ he said. ▫️Nobody wanted to go to war in the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade, to where Vasily got sent. ‘All those, who were mobilised, want peace and go back home,’ said Romanov. As he said, everybody understood superiority of Russian troops in firepower in the front lines: ‘When Russian artillery, tanks, mortars struck, our troops never fired back.’ ▫️When Vasily realised that the only way to survive is to surrender, he voluntarily dropped his arms. ‘Russian servicemen never showed any aggression towards us. They brought us tea. In the evening, they fed us: meat, potatoes, bread,’ he said. ▫️When asked about what he wanted to say to Ukrainian servicemen, Vasily told that he wanted them to stop resistance: ‘Surrender at once! Don’t shoot back, just surrender!’ Russian Defence Ministry Источник: MoD Russia