9/ On a later occasion, Putyatov's platoon was forced to retreat after coming under fire. "We sat in that wooded area we'd retreated to for almost seven days. No food, no water, no ammunition resupply, no rotation."

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10/ "Then they just pounded us from three sides, and [the Russians' commanders] didn't even respond. They had no time…" Putyatov says that he found out afterwards that his officers were in the basement of a five-storey building, smoking drugs.

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He began issuing orders to surrender our weapons, our personal protective equipment, and to move out at night through the minefield toward the wooded area where the enemy was concealed.

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8/ Putyatov doesn't explain the reason for this, but other accounts have spoken of Russian soldiers being sent out unarmed and told to scavenge weapons and body armour from corpses left on the battlefield by both sides.

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"Let's go. The second battalion was almost completely wiped out." Of Vasiliev, Putyatov says: "I never saw the battalion commander sober. He was always accompanied by some kind of shaman."

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4/ "As we approached the city, our battalion commander, call sign Grom, Captain Arkady Vasiliev, said to us while drunk, "The city is ours. Go in calmly." Well, he was the commander, so why doubt his words? If he said so, then it must be true.

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2/ Platoon commander Anton Alekseevich Putyatov has recorded a video after deserting from the 1435th Motorized Rifle Regiment, serving near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

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The British and German defence ministers have acknowledged that Ukraine is a "contributor" to European security and should have a place within NATO.

"Ukraine is increasingly recognized and understood to play a part in the training of other NATO nations' forces. In recent moves… pic.twitter.com/bW3XsNGnuR

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) 16 octobre 2025

The British and German defence ministers have acknowledged that Ukraine is a "contributor" to European security and should have a place within NATO. "Ukraine is increasingly recognized and understood to play a part in the training of other NATO nations' forces. In recent moves

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