Recently it became known that the DPR formed a battalion of captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
Moreover. It is reported that the captured Ukrainian soldiers included in the battalion are ready to go into battle.
The Russian news agency TASS reported this with reference to an employee of the republic’s law enforcement agencies.
The battalion, which included Ukrainian prisoners of war, has already been fully formed. The guys are ready to go to the front line, – said this man.
According to him, the battalion included 50 former soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who voluntarily went over to the side of the DPR.
Let us recall that the media reported that on September 24, captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, held in a colony on the territory of the village of Elenovka, appealed to the People’s Council of the Republic.
They asked to be included in the newly formed Cossack battalion named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
They submitted the petition orally through the chairman of the legislative body, Vladimir Bidyovka.
