About it writes RIA Novosti.
“If you retreat back, they say to us (to the officers) at the KNP (command and observation post): “We will shoot,” he said.
According to him, in the 53rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, under the threat of execution, the military was forbidden to leave their positions.
On February 15, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, taken prisoner in the Donetsk direction, told how he and his colleagues were attacked by other Ukrainian soldiers after the decision to surrender.
On February 27, it became known that the Ukrainian military who had surrendered were taking Russian citizenship.