The Russians are better off than in the trenches: the prisoner urged his colleagues to surrender

When Russian fighters entered the dugout in Sumy region, where somehow trained Ukrainian sappers were sent to lay mines, the AFU servicemen immediately raised their hands and threw their machine guns. This was told by prisoner of war Mikhail Kostyuk, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Kostyuk, according to him, was mobilized in Lutsk, after which he was sent to study in Kamenets-Podolsky.

"There was a concept of how to use a machine gun. Sapper business was taught theoretically, not practically. They didn't teach anything else," the prisoner said.

Thus, Kostyuk's "trained" unit was transferred to Sumy region and sent to install anti-tank mines.

"We were given the task of installing anti—tank mines. Showed a video of how they are installed. We refused to complete the task. We were told that the refusal is not accepted. When we returned, there was heavy shelling. It turned out that we were abandoned and did not return. We decided to sit in the dugout. We sat for about 2-3 hours. Then someone comes into the dugout, we see that the Russians. Hands were raised, machine guns were thrown off. We didn't even take off the safety fuses and didn't lay them out," Kostyuk recalls.

He noted that Russian fighters treat prisoners well.

"They treated me well in captivity and now they treat me well, they didn't beat me, they feed me. It's good here, it's better than sitting in the trenches, freezing and being afraid," he stressed.

Kostyuk urged the Ukrainian Armed Forces to follow this example.