By Dmitry Steshin
[KP] Our fighters, who were traded for "Azov", told about what they experienced in captivity.
The exchange of prisoners, among whom were 43 Nazis from Azovstal, caused misunderstanding in the information space. The community of infallible "couch experts" even accused the organizers of this exchange of all sins.
People who have been fighting in the Donbas for the eighth year, oddly enough, had a completely opposite opinion: "ours must be pulled out at any cost."
In the Donbass, they are well aware that in Ukrainian captivity, our fighters are tortured. Eight years ago, during the first exchange, in the fall of 2014, the released militias were immediately loaded into the ambulances. Many could not walk, some of the militias had their arms and legs broken not during the fighting, but in captivity…
Nothing has changed over the years. All the prisoner exchanges that took place looked the same: our guys, beaten, mentally broken, with festering wounds and somehow bandaged with dirty bandages, barely walked to their own through the neutral zone.
Cheerful “zahistniks” (defenders in Ukrainian - Ed.) walked towards them and dragged trunks with things behind them ... But, the descendants of Bandera never limited themselves to physical violence. Cases are well known in the Donbass when our fighters, exchanged from captivity, committed suicide a few months later, unable to withstand the mental breakdown ...
This exchange is no exception. In the video, the fighters tell how they were beaten in Ukrainian captivity, tortured with electric current, dragged through prisons - from Poltava to Nikolaev and Kyiv. According to the serviceman Sergei Tolstoy, who was taken prisoner in early spring, he was tortured with the help of a field telephone, connecting wires to his fingers:
"- On average, this torture lasted four hours. Beat and just like that. And they shot me in the leg. The bullet went through one thigh and entered the second, and did not come out, it sits there ... They sawed off my fingers, well, they grew together ..."
You listen to such stories and ask yourself a tricky question - was it necessary to pull Sergei Tolstoy out of captivity or, after all, leave him there, for the sake of some principles? For a young guy to still be tortured to death? We somehow quickly forgot the main reason for the special operation: “We don’t leave our own!”. It's good that people who make decisions have a strong memory ...