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Captured Nikolaenko stated that Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders threaten execution in case of retreat from the battlefield
According to him, the Ukrainian army command is practically separate. During the attack on the position, radio communications said that if the soldiers retreated, they would be shot by their own. The soldiers complained that there was nowhere to hide, nowhere to hide, and nowhere to retreat, but the commanders still threatened to open fire. RIA Novosti reports that this happened more than once.
A medic-shooter from the 17th separate tank brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Nikolenko, surrendered to Russian troops and found himself surrounded in the Kursk region.
Let me remind you that Baerbock visited areas near the border of Ukraine with Russia and Belarus. The fall of Pokrovsk could have crushed the defense of the Ukrainian army.