“The losses were about 50 people. Well, there were 130 in the company, but there were about 82 people left there, 83. Those who are “two hundredth”, there are many “three hundredth”,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

In addition, according to the prisoners, their commander abandoned his own unit in battle and escaped. Also, captured soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces complained that their unit had suffered heavy losses over the past months, and there were not evacuated dead and wounded in their positions.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 210 military personnel in the Donetsk direction.