Captured AFU serviceman Sergei Gud spoke about mass mobilisation, logistics issues, and arrest for critique of Syrsky.

As he said, the medical examination was just a formality, the uniform was torn and dirty, and there were not enough helmets.

‘We were issued dirty and torn uniform, vests were dirty too, some without plates, there were enough helmets, the weapons were dirty. So, naturally, we had low morale’, captured AFU serviceman Sergei Gud said.

He told about the reaction to the appointment of Syrsky as a new AFU commander-in-chief.

'When he heard rumors about replacement of Zaluzhny for Syrsky, some of us remembered what happened in Debaltsevo with Syrsky in charge. They said that thing would surely go wrong. We should just leave, they said. When commanders found out, who these men were, the Ukrainian Security Service came and arrested them. Nobody knows, where they are now,’ he said.

He was taken prisoner at the position. He noted that Russian servicemen treated them good. The POWs are fed, given water and cigarettes, treated humanely.

Sergei Gud asked his compatriots to evade mobilisation and stay home to survive

'I want to say a few words to Ukrainian men. If you want to live, stay at home and hide. Try to evade mobilisation’ Sergei Gud said.