A viral video shows an alleged Ukrainian soldier who was captured by the Russian military, saying he was a civilian and was captured and forcibly conscripted into Ukraine’s military when he went out to buy bread.
“How did you end up at the front?”
“I went to the store to buy bread, the TCC arrived, threw me into a minibus, and took me away. They brought me to some gym. We stayed there for 3 days and then were taken here. I didn’t even know where we were until you said it was Volchansk”.
Watch the video below:
There are many reports of the Ukrainian armed forces forcefully taking civilians and conscripting them into the military with very little or no training, and being forced to fight in the war against Russia.
Recently, footage appeared of a man being dragged away from his wife and child by the military while they were on a bus. One showed an injured Ukrainian soldier who said he was a civilian who was abandoned by his comrades in the woods, and another showed a pregnant Ukrainian woman in military gear also abandoned in the woods.