However, for this, he and five other Russians were sent to the #Donetsk direction as a "beacon" - to check whether there were #Ukrainian soldiers or not - where they were captured. The #Russians, seeing that the soldiers had surrendered, tried to kill them with mortars.

In captivity, #Chornyi decided to join the #Russian_Volunteer_Corps and defend #Ukraine, because, as he says, "it is necessary to fight against the current authorities" in #Russia.

📹: #Suspilne

"Caught between a rock and a hard place?" 🤔

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

"The one feeling I'll live with for the rest of my life is how I came to #Ukraine. I came as an occupier."

A soldier with the callsign #Chornyi was drafted into the #Russian army at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. He shared that his commanders had told him the #Russians were welcomed in #Enerhodar as 'liberators,' but after seeing videos of what was actually happening there, he decided to desert.