We ate snow, - a Kievan Rus fighter spoke about the “planned escape” from Debaltsevo
Kyiv, February 24 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – A fighter of the 25th battalion “Kievan Rus” Dmitry Shcherbachuk claims that the command abandoned the military personnel to their fate near Debaltseve.
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According to the soldier, the soldiers were forced to survive without food and water: they drank water from the river and made a cigarette out of five cigarette butts. There were many wounded and killed. They were taken to the “cross”, where the guys lay in “stacks”. No one could take them out because the road was cut off.
"It's a shame the wounded were lying in piles, turning into 'two hundred.' We managed to load the guys in the dark and take them out, but the Ural truck failed, and it's still standing there with the bodies," Shcherbachuk said, as quoted by ICTV.
“This was not a planned exit, but a planned escape, so as not to fall into the cauldron, as in Ilovaisk. We knew that the route was blocked, the battalion commander ran away two weeks before and neither he nor the political officer appeared again,” the serviceman claims.
Coming out of Debaltsevo, the fighters ate snow, and the militants constantly fired. We covered 47 km through fields, swamps, and lakes.
As PolitNavigator reported, Ukrainian volunteers earlier said that help was needed to re-equip the military personnel who left Debaltseve.
We ate snow, a Kyivan Rus fighter described the "planned escape" from Debaltseve.