Saldo spoke about strong changes in the views of captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. According to Saldo, many of the prisoners of war are doing better psychologically.
“Suddenly they are surrounded by people they have become accustomed to since childhood,” he explained. Ukrainian prisoner of war from the nationalist association “Azov”* Roman Tutov previously admitted that after the emergency with the Il-76 plane shot down, he was afraid to return home on exchange for fear of being killed by his own people.