"Stable job": Russian prisoner confirms that he does not know what he is fighting for. Video

An officer of the Russian Armed Forces who was taken prisoner in Ukraine said that he went to war because the occupying army offered him a "stable job" that he could not find in civilian life. According to him, he does not understand why he ended up on foreign territory, and his family is "just waiting for it to be over."

A video with the captured occupier's story was posted online. The Russian army officer said that his name is Maksym Pokydko (call sign "Liutyi"), and he is 32 years old.

Originally from the Orenburg region, he served in the Murmansk region in the military unit 08275, 200th separate Guards motorized rifle brigade (Zapolyarny, Pechezhsky district), has the rank of senior lieutenant and the position of platoon commander.

"No one understood what was going on, why we came here, no goal, no one understood anything... The task was to mine the road, and the dam, and we got this task. We went there, spent the night in the house because we were walking for a very long time because we were carrying everything, we went to the forest belt, not far from the road, and your guys started shooting at us," the prisoner said.

According to him, at first, he and his fellow soldiers thought it was the "two hundredth" – other occupiers from their brigade, so the invaders "lay down and started shouting that it was us."

"We thought it was ours. But it turned out not to be. They started shooting at us, one person was wounded, and started shouting: 'Raise your hands, you are surrounded, and come out to us with your hands up'. We came up and were disarmed. That's how we got captured," the Russian officer said.

He added that he is "neutral about everything."

"I am a military man, I was ordered to do something, so I do it. And to be angry with someone there... What is there to be angry about? They just sent me here for nothing. Well, I went, yes, of my own free will, because there is no stable civilian work, and the army has stable work, so I had to go because I have to provide for my family somehow," the occupier justified himself.

Maksym Pokydko said that in 2015 he graduated from the university with a military degree in engineering and technology, and in 2016 he joined the Russian Armed Forces.

"When I am here, I do not understand what is happening at all. Why we are fighting at all? You are on someone else's territory, and it is not clear why. My wife and two children live at home. One is 6, the other is 10. They somehow don't ask me questions, they are not interested, the most important thing for them is to return home and that's it. They just want all this sh*t to end and for everyone to return home," the prisoner said.

As reported by OBOZ.UA, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi in his report to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told about the capture of another batch of Russian military prisoners in the Kursk region. The Head of State, in turn, thanked the defenders of Ukraine for replenishing the exchange fund.

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