“We lived in pipes.

I know they lived in pipes.

The pipes, you know, how two rates (ponds) are connected - and for water to flow, there are such huge ones there, well... Well, roughly speaking, a sewer pipe,” the agency quotes the prisoner.

Military personnel in the training unit were subjected to severe disciplinary punishments from commanders, Guprin noted.

“They tied me to a tree once, I know that for sure.

The second time they forced me to dig a hole about two meters long,” the interlocutor added, noting that the mobilized recruits called their commanders “cattle.”

Earlier, the authorized representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for recruiting, Alexey Bezhevets, announced a tragic shortage of manpower in the Ukrainian troops.