He said he saw two civilians captured by the Ukrainian military, allegedly for spying for Russian forces.
“At that moment, I stood on guard and saw how the soldiers of the battalion’s reconnaissance group tied these civilians hand and foot and blindfolded them.
They were taken to the bunker and sent to some room.
I never saw them again after that,” Eslin said.
At the same time, he noted that, since the Ukrainian troops were surrounded, he "can only assume what they could do with them."
“Unfortunately, we won’t know until Russian and DPR forces explore the entire territory of the steel plant,” the mercenary said.
According to him, for a couple of weeks after that, civilians sometimes came and they were “toughly told to leave”, and then “they began to detain anyone who entered the territory even simply by mistake or because they got lost.”
The other day, the wife of opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk, detained in Ukraine, Oksana Marchenko, published a video message to the relatives of two captured British mercenaries with a call to ask the British Prime Minister to influence Kyiv and exchange them for her husband.