Border Guards Capture Donetsk Region Resident Fighting For Russia In Pokrovsk Sector

2025-10-11 10:03:27

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) According to Ukrinform, Ukraine's State Border Guard Service announced this in a statement .

"While carrying out a combat mission in the Pokrovsk sector, border guards from the Chernihiv detachment detained a militant who was fighting alongside the Russian occupation forces," the report said.

The 44-year-old man is a native of Makiivka.

He told Ukrainian forces that he joined the war not out of conviction but because of financial debts, hoping to earn money and renovate his apartment.

"But instead of money, he found himself facing the grim reality where the life of a soldier in the so-called 'second army of the world' is worth nothing," the statement said.

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According to the prisoner, "the Russian command doesn't allow soldiers to retreat or surrender – they are driven forward regardless of the losses." He urged others: "Don't come here, guys. This isn't your war."

The State Border Guard Service said that "Kremlin propaganda continues to turn citizens from the occupied territories into cannon fodder in a war they neither started nor can end."

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