Ukrainian prisoners of war said they were forbidden to communicate with local residents

“We understand that in this territory (DPR. -

) they don’t quite like the Ukrainian military,” captive Alexander Pavlenko told RIA Novosti.

According to him, the servicemen were forced to change into civilian clothes in order to go to the store because of the hostility of local residents to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“We were not allowed to talk to the locals at all… They told us not to talk to anyone… We were told not to go, so as not to shine.

So that local people do not know that we live here, ”added another captive, Alexander Kalinovsky.

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.

Adviser to the Acting Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Yan Gagin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not protect manpower at all.