A serviceman from a Russian military intelligence special forces unit has surrendered to Ukrainian forces through the “I Want to Live” project.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
The Russian special forces soldier laid down his arms and is now telling representatives of the project how commanders send members of the Russian army’s “elite” on suicidal assaults.
The Russian serviceman said that the army’s treatment of its personnel as “cannon fodder,” along with the consequences of the so-called “liberation” he witnessed, prompted him to consider surrendering. According to the prisoner of war, he realized that he was uncomfortable seeing himself as a soldier in an invading army that takes people’s homes away from them.
The man is now safe and under the protection of the Geneva Conventions. He is urging other Russian servicemen who have come to recognize the criminal nature of their army’s actions to contact the “I Want to Live” project.
