The AFU captured an Uzbekistani man who joined the army because of his Russian passport

The Ukrainian military in the Liman direction has captured a citizen of Uzbekistan who, according to him, came to Russia to work as a construction worker but ended up at the front. This is reported by the Telegram-channel of the 63rd separate mechanised brigade of the AFU "Steel Lions".

The man was wounded during the assault and, having lost his orientation, went to the positions of the Ukrainian army, where he was detained. In a video published by the Ukrainian military, he said that he agreed to participate in combat operations for the sake of obtaining Russian citizenship and promised cash payments.

According to him, for serving in the army he was offered a passport in a year and payments of 2 million roubles. He spent 100 thousand of them, sent 800 thousand to his family, and the rest remained on his bank card.

The prisoner confessed that he had no previous military experience, and participation in combat operations was the first time for him. After a few days on the front line, he realised that he did not want to continue participating in the war:

"I thought it was the army, I would serve and come back. But it turned out to be not an army, but a war where you have to kill people," the detainee said.

Earlier, Socialportal wrote about the story of Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych, who spent more than two years in Russian captivity. Maksym was sentenced to 13 years in the Russian Federation on a trumped-up case, which claimed that he was an extremist who ran a group of far-right radicals. These charges shocked everyone who knew Maksim. He was a human rights activist for decades, co-founder of the organisation Without Borders, and one of the few people in Ukraine who cared about the fate of asylum seekers, refugees, and foreign students who faced arbitrariness, rudeness, and intolerance. He also helped political refugees stemming from authoritarian regimes, primarily Putin's.