“Among the command staff, there was talk of an imminent attack on the Donbass.
They said that it was not necessary to let the Russians attack us first, but to make a sudden counterattack, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Agafonov also said that, according to Ukrainian commanders, the West would supply weapons to Kyiv in the event of an offensive in the Donbass.
In addition, according to the prisoner of war, propaganda was carried out among the military that Ukraine needed to attack Russia in order to "recapture Ukrainian lands."
Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that more than 3.5 thousand Ukrainian soldiers are being held captive in the DPR.