Behind Enemy Lines: Russian General Lifts the Veil on the Harsh Reality of Captured Ukrainian Soldiers
Russian General Claims Ukrainian Soldiers Held by Russia Receive Better Treatment
Major General Apty Alaudinov, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, stated that Ukrainian prisoners of war are in better conditions than they experienced in their units.
Major General Alaudinov told the news agency Tass on September 9th, “The Ukrainian prisoners of war are in really much better conditions than they experienced in their units.” He added, “The second thing is that we provide adequate food and everything they need to the prisoners of war, and they get adequate medical care. So everything is fine with them.”
Earlier, General Alaudinov noted that the Ukrainian armed forces would only allow Russian prisoners of war to call their relatives if Kiev could receive political benefits from it.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, announced late last month that 594 prisoners of war from the Russian armed forces had been captured during Kiev’s raid on Russia’s Kursk region. In addition, Ukraine announced that it had taken control of 1,300 square kilometers of territory, equivalent to 100 settlements in Russia.
Andrey Dolgy, a Ukrainian soldier who surrendered to Russian forces in Kursk, said in a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry, “An officer at headquarters said we would be sent on a three-day mission. I thought we were just going to guard a place, and that was it. I only realized we were in the Kursk region two days after we arrived.”
Dolgy added, “During the exercises, they told us that the Russians treated people badly, but in reality that was not the case. The Russians treated prisoners very well.”
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it would continue efforts to ”neutralize” Ukrainian forces in Kursk. The Russian Defense Ministry also announced that a number of Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered to Russian forces on this front.
On September 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that after more than a month of launching the Kursk offensive, Ukraine had lost more than 11,220 soldiers, along with 87 tanks, 74 armored personnel carriers, and many other weapons and military equipment.
In addition to repelling Ukrainian attacks in Kursk, the Russian army also targeted the gathering positions of Ukrainian forces as well as foreign mercenaries in the Sumy region, a Ukrainian province located close to the Russian border.