23/ He appeals to military prosecutors to take action against the commanders, and comments: "You have to prepare before going there, and not just run into machine guns. Some guys ran out, but they were simply torn apart. Simply torn apart."

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21/ The man also says that his commanders, whom he names as 'Vulcan' (the commander) and his deputy 'Mamai', routinely extort and execute the men under their command: "They were eliminating people, eliminating those soldiers who were undesirable…"

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"They were lying there, they were all charred, torn apart, all swollen." He says that his commanders knew the men would all be killed; the man he was with had been declared dead six days before the assault. He believes the command is hiding the true scale of the losses.

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17/ Before they were sent on the assault, he says, his commanders told the men: "You faggots, you assholes, you're not people, you're meat, you must. You must go, you must kill, kill, go."

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19/ "Right now, we're hiding from everyone, trying to get away, because if they catch us, they'll 100% wipe us out, because we know a lot. There were corpses lying there, I simply can't explain it to you. If I had a phone, I would have filmed it.

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18/ Now he and a comrade are hiding out on the battlefield, seeking to survive without getting involved in any more assaults and trying to escape the wrath of his commanders, who he says will execute them if they are caught:

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16/ "It's just a nightmare, it's hell we've been through." The soldier blames his commanders: "Without mortar preparation, without artillery preparation, they simply wiped us out. I'll tell you the truth, they wiped us out."

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14/ "People shouldn't see this, shouldn't hear this. It was just brutal. They were mowing people down, as if, I don't know, they were walking across a field and just cutting the grass. There are still corpses lying on the roads there, with tanks running over them.

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Two of the survivors had crippling injuries and had to be left behind by the two remaining able-bodied survivors, one of whom was the soldier in the video. The man was subsequently sent to fight in the Pokrovsk area, which he says is even worse.

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"And they send us back. They say we're sending you back because you didn't complete the task, since we never got there—we were destroyed by drones. It was pure hell there. They mowed us down; I don't know, they didn't even let us raise our heads."

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