In this lengthy 141-page testimony, we learn that his unit, the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment, took part in the first attack on Ukraine on February 24th. “At 4 a.m. we heard the first shots from Grad rocket launchers. It was such a blaze of fire that we knew it was serious. »
lies and misunderstandings
This elite soldier meticulously describes the course of the conflict. He describes troops looting occupied territories, lack of supplies, poor communications, and gradually collapsing morale. “We always only knew about the goals at the last moment. The first two weeks we didn’t even have sleeping bags, we slept on the floor,” he says.
The man also took the opportunity to “denounce the lie of the Russian government”. “There were no neo-Nazis before us,” he wrote in his diary. “It took me weeks to realize that there was no war at all on Russian territory and that we had just attacked Ukraine. At that time (during the attack on Mykolayiv) I thought we were doing some nonsense. I said to myself: My God, if I survive, I’ll do everything to stop this,” says Pavel Filatyev.