Soldiers of the 46th Brigade captured a repeat offender from Chelyabinsk during his first battle
Servicemen of the 46th Separate Airmobile Podolian Brigade captured a 46-year-old resident of Chelyabinsk during their very first combat engagement. The man had spent 26 years in prison and signed a contract to go to the front.
A video of the conversation with the prisoner was published on the brigade’s official channel.
According to him, he spent most of his life behind bars — 26 out of his 46 years in correctional facilities. He said he voluntarily agreed to take part in hostilities in hopes of receiving a “clean slate” and a chance at a new life. However, his time at the front was short-lived — during his first combat mission, he was captured by Ukrainian paratroopers.
Ukrainian soldiers noted that the man had been sent to the front line without proper training.
“His story is yet another example of how the Russian system throws people with criminal backgrounds into the war, for whom this so-called ‘mobilization’ becomes not a path to freedom, but another cycle in a troubled life,” the defenders stated.
Earlier, fighters of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade, together with comrades from the 253rd Assault Regiment, captured 11 Russian servicemen over the course of a week on the Zaporizhzhia axis.
Russian forces continue to employ so-called “blocking detachments,” allegedly killing their own soldiers for attempting to save their lives and withdraw from combat.
In Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region, a small remaining group of Russian troops is reportedly holding defensive positions in one of the neighborhoods near the city center.
