“I don't know whether or not I will get out of here.”

Anton Andreyev, a contract soldier of the Russian Armed Forces from the 5th company of the 1009th regiment, told ASTRA about the Russian army's operation during the offensive on the Ukrainian city of Vovchansk. According to him, only 12 of his company of 100 men remained.

Officers said his company was told to stay on the Russian-Ukrainian border, but they were sent to Vovchansk. But before the offensive, even before taking one of the strongholds, some of the fighters died from artillery fire.

“The operation started already out of time. They [commanders] started to push us “forward and forward”. Mortars were firing, and people were sent there. Half of the company was wounded during the first night. Most of them were wounded. There were also a lot of dead,” the Russian soldier says.

According to Andreyev, the officers sent the fighters to Vovchansk with nothing but body armors and assault rifles. They managed to take one of the streets in the city on the first night, but after that, large-scale losses began - fresh groups from the training units could not pass two houses, as they were crushed by machine guns and hit by drones. Only one man was left in one of the groups.

“You pass a street, it seems everything is okay, but then you get under the fire - under machine guns, especially drones - they eliminate so many troops! And the commanders on the radio shouting “forward, forward!”. You can't move back. When 5-10 people from all groups are left, maybe they will let us retreat,” Andreyev describes the storming of the streets in Vovchansk.

“'They just kill us and that's it. Sent under machine guns, under drones in daylight hours. Meat assaults. So I don't know if I'll be wounded or killed. Well, and I understand that our leadership is given an order, and those who sit in Moscow, they don't care,” Andreyev says.

Should have thought of that before signing a contract to kill Ukrainians.

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