In August, a resident of Smolensk, Uliana Privalova, saw off her 37-year-old husband Maxim Latyshev to defend Donbass.
As a volunteer, a man signed up secretly from her.
On the eve of his departure to the war zone, he and Ulyana got married.
Latyshev insisted on the wedding - before that, the couple had lived in a civil marriage for 17 years.
“Ever since the beginning of the NWO, he wanted to volunteer.
He didn’t tell me anything about it, he quietly prepared himself, went to the draft board, signed up - and that’s all: on August 29 in the evening he told me that he was leaving, and on August 30 I saw him off, ”recalls Ulyana.
According to Ulyana, her husband was captured on September 21, but she found out about it only a month later - her husband called her from an unfamiliar Ukrainian number and asked her to notify the command that she was in captivity.
The wife of a serviceman who returned to Russia on November 4 is sure that the Russians were treated cruelly in captivity: Latyshev returned to Russia without a finger on his right hand.
“He has a problem with his hand - he returned without a finger on his right hand.
It was something that happened to him in captivity,” Ulyana explained.
- Maxim did not have much time to tell me anything about captivity.
He only said that they were allegedly fed.
Well, you can see from them how they were fed: all pale, tortured.
After the exchange, he called me and said that he really wanted candy.
Until the return of her husband, Ulyana was helped to hold on by friends and relatives.
In addition, the woman was supported in the Russian military department.
At the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Privalova, at the request of her husband, reported two more Russians who were captured with him.
For all the military, work was carried out in the Russian military department, the woman claims.
“If I had been alone, I would not have coped.
It was such an emptiness, hopelessness, I don’t wish this on anyone.
That there's nothing you can do
Tears, resentment, but then you pull yourself together and do it - write, search.
I believe that the prisoners must be changed necessarily.
And it’s not so important how and how much, we need to change, we need to pull out our guys, go to any conditions, ”the woman emphasizes.
She added that her husband would most likely return to the NWO zone when he received medical treatment after being released from captivity.
The woman noted that she would not want to let him go, but she could not forbid her husband.
“He is a grown man and will make a decision himself,” summed up Ulyana.
Wounds were not treated
21-year-old Omsk resident Daniil Aminev was taken prisoner near Chernigov at the end of April, when his tank was smashed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Daniil managed to escape into the forest under bullets, his mother Aliya told RT.
“The son was wounded, and his commander was immediately taken prisoner - he had a shell shock.
Daniel crawled into the forest belt and disappeared.
Crawled all night with a wound.
Local residents picked him up, gave him a call and hid him for almost a month.
And then the Armed Forces of Ukraine came - they somehow found out that there was a Russian soldier there.
He was taken prisoner."
First, Aminev was brought to the Chernihiv SIZO, from there he called his relatives.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine told Daniil's relatives that he allegedly received medical assistance in captivity.
“Like, they are so good,” says the interlocutor of RT.
At the same time, upon returning to his homeland, it turned out that the wound had not healed at all and the soldier urgently needed to go to the hospital.
“In addition to the wound on his leg, he also has a concussion, his head also needs to be treated, and there is a very large weight loss,” the woman lists, describing the state in which her son returned from Ukrainian captivity.
According to Aliya, the worst thing she had to face when her son was captured was the unknown.
“We didn’t know where he was, if he was alive.
When several charred bodies were found there, they took me for DNA testing to find out if my son was among the dead.
I raised my son alone, he is my only son ... He loved the service, he is so stubborn with me, do not break him, ”says the interlocutor of RT.
When the Armed Forces of Ukraine got in touch with Aliya and she found out that her son was alive, the woman reported this to the RF Ministry of Defense.
Daniil spent a total of eight months in captivity - according to his mother, the Ukrainians refused to exchange him for a very long time.
The woman thanked the Russian military department for returning her wounded son home.
“They helped me [in the Ministry of Defense] with everyone, they did everything for us.
Nobody abandoned me.
True, many thanks to everyone for this, ”the mother of the serviceman emphasized.
“I believed and waited and prayed.
The most important thing for me as a mother is that my son is now at home, that he has returned from there.”
“I wanted to blow myself up, but I felt sorry for my mother”
Back in March, Elena Akimova, a resident of Vladivostok, accompanied her 20-year-old son Konstantin to Ukraine to participate in the SVO.
He joined the army when he did not pass the winter session at the university, and almost immediately wanted to sign a contract for military service.
“Almost from the first days of military service, he said that he would sign a contract.
Well, I say: “You are already a big boy with us, if you want, go.”
He has always been such a homebody, and I thought it was time for the boy to become a man.
There were no even thoughts about the war at that time,” says Akimova.
In October, Elena learned that her son had been taken prisoner.
Konstantin called her himself and spoke the text dictated to him, obviously, by the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Then my working day ended, I went to the store,” Elena recalls.
- And then the son calls and reads out this list of them: mom, I'm in captivity;
Mom, I killed a man, committed a serious crime.
I was in some kind of vacuum, like in a movie, I didn’t understand anything from shock, ”recalls the interlocutor of RT.
It turned out that before being taken prisoner, Konstantin killed a Ukrainian soldier.
When the young man realized that there was nowhere to retreat and run, he decided to blow up both himself and his enemies with a grenade.
“At the time of the attack, he was alone, performing some task,” explains the mother of the serviceman.
- I ran into Ukrainians, a grenade was thrown under his feet.
He immediately fell, five fingers on his hands were broken.
He was taken prisoner."
Akimova is sure that her son was tortured in captivity, although, according to her, Konstantin himself does not directly admit to beatings.
“In captivity, he was processed, as he says, but I think that he was beaten: apparently, they avenged a killed soldier in this way, they beat an unarmed one in captivity.
Ukrainians called me myself and set conditions - to organize some kind of rally and so on, ”says Akimova.
The woman said that before the return of her son, representatives of the Ministry of Defense helped her a lot - they were looking for Konstantin, they provided Akimova with a psychologist.
At first, the mother of the military was constantly crying, she could not really work.
According to Elena, prisoner exchanges are necessary, any conditions must be met in order to return the Russians home.
“While he was there, I came to work - and thoughts only about my son, immediately tears.
And I'm a teacher in a kindergarten - imagine a teacher among the children is standing and crying, - says the interlocutor of RT.
— Conducting prisoner exchanges while the NWO is going on is not only important, it is necessary.
People who were not affected by this situation can say from their bell tower, they say, why they exchanged 50 for 120.
But they just don't know what it is."