Fighters of the 4th Assault Battalion of the 92nd Assault Brigade named after Ivan Sirko captured a serviceman of the Russian army, Dmitry Gurovsky, on the Kupiansk axis. Before the war, he lived in the village of Khokhol in the Voronezh region.

The video of the conversation with the captive was published on the brigade’s channel on December 29.

Gurovsky managed to “fight” for only 10 days and surrendered during his first deployment, saying: “Don’t kill me, I want to live, take me prisoner, I will help you!”

The Russian said he went to war to earn money and get his son out of prison. However, he did not realize that killing Ukrainians is not the kind of “earnings” that can save a family — it only plunges it deeper into disaster.

He also recounted how an assault rifle butt was broken over his head during training; how one fellow serviceman blew himself up with a grenade to avoid going to war; about the road to positions littered with the bodies of Russian soldiers whom no one retrieves; and about a dark-skinned Kenyan comrade.

Gurovsky spoke extensively about food: after reaching the “zero line”, he was not given food. In captivity, however, he was fed and provided with medical care, which shocked him. It turned out Ukrainians are not at all as frightening as television has portrayed them for years.

Watch the conversation with the Russian captive and our assault troops who captured him, as well as drone footage of how it all happened, in the video.