He told RIA Novosti about this.
“People said that we would not go to these positions because they were hiding,” he said.
According to him, in total, his unit included about 500 people.
He said that he was taken prisoner after he mixed up the road due to shelling and went to the positions of the Russian Armed Forces.
Earlier, Advisor to the Acting Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Yan Gagin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not save manpower at all.