According to him, his unit located in the rear was sent to the front in the area of ​​the Svatovo-Kremennaya highway after several incidents.

He noted that the personnel were sent to the front line to the 95th separate airborne assault brigade of Ukrainian troops. 

The task of Lazarenko and his colleagues was to dig trenches and dugouts.

We go and dig dugouts for them.

They bring us for three days, then they pick us up.

They are transported in the Ural with logs and everything, about twenty to thirty people, ”RIA Novosti quotes Lazarenko.

Earlier, Ukrainian serviceman Sergei Ulyanov, who was captured on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front line, said that upon arrival at the front line, 47 people in his battalion refused to participate in hostilities due to shelling.