Russian POW: One grabbed his gun and wanted to shoot himself
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2023
- Dmitry Sologub, native of Russian city of Vladivostok, taken prisoner by the Defense Forces near the village of Staromlynivka, Zaporizhzhia direction. Dmitry Sologub (Dmytro Sologub), 06.03.1996, Vladivostok, mobilized on October 4, 2022. Taken prisoner by the Defense Forces near the village of Staromlynivka, Zaporizhzhia direction. In this conversation, the POW told about how the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia direction began for the occupiers, the work of Western equipment, why Russians are only expendable material for their commanders, and why Russians in Russia need to start speaking. For more - watch full interview with the Russia POW.
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As a Vietnam veteran, this war breaks my heart. God have mercy on all of Putin' victims.
shame on you
But not on Putin.
" god have mercy " ..??! lmao...
All the victims of imperialism and colonialism, including Palestinians. We shouldn't think it's bad only when the people affect have white skin. Thousands of dead Palestinians civilians and children would be alive today if they had their own air defense systems to defend from Israeli airstrikes, which routinely murder entire families. At the beginning of the invasion, they used photos and imagery of Israeli airstrikes on civilian infrastructure claiming it was Ukraine; That tells you everything you need to know about the double standard taking place here.
and all of your victims too.
Good to hear a Russian describing the dumb mentality of most Russians,,lucky for him that he was captured.
I thought it was interesting that he blamed the lack of a good education for the fact that people don’t have critical thinking.
@Mary Marlow lack of education, abundance of vodka.
Even more lucky if he reminds in Ukraine. The Russians will torture him and throw him into a. Dark basement for speaking up.
@@George.Andrews.
The Ukrainians could win the war if they would leave tons of alcohol and marijuana where the Russians are expected to be.
@@marymarlow3646 USA is on the way to it too, over 130 million americans have not an education worth more than a 6th grade!
A very intelligent fellow. It is unfortunate that such young people are subjected to the cruel and corrupt rule of their old ex-Soviet leaders.
He really surprised me! His luck is also in his smart thinking. At least now he understands what a Circus, what a Madhouse has became Russia under a totalitarian leader. Russia has developed only in terms of what is the best interest of the oligarchs. The rest is pretty much the same. Russian elite around Putin created a state of thieves and corruption at all levels.
He must be tuvian maybe?
Most of their cannon fodder is from Siberia.
Few losses are from Moscow area.
I was thinking the same thing this guy seems a lot more intelligent than previous P.O.W interviews I've seen
If he was intelligent he wouldn't have gone to Ukraine.
The disorganisation of the Russians is unbelievable.
And still they claim its the best in the world
@@steve9538 Their*
@@fmanyeman780 Have not heard that for over a year!
Russia has a long tradition of incompetence.. look up russias second pacific squadron voyage of the danmed, it's a great laugh
Holy shit this guy woke the hell up. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
He probably "woke up" long ago, but under the Russian System it's always BETTER to KEEP your thoughts to yourself!
The sad truth
This guy said he attended protests before the war. He’a been awake. He’s also saying that the war money could have been used for better purposes.
@@deborahdonnelly8423 Yes the money could help Ruzzia to be a first world country instead of the third world country it is now.
Ruzzia needs a new monument, The Tomb Of The Unknown Dictator!!!! Build it, fill it, move on!
If he has the guts, he's a good candidate for the Russian Freedom Legion.
After he has answered all their questions! You just don't join them! It is harder than this interview! They must be sure it is no ruzzians that do it just to give them a bad name. That is why the Russian volunteer forces never can be part of them. Because they are nationalists!
He had guts but now he's spilling them
THIS GUY SHOULD JOIN THE RUSSIAN FREEDOM LEGION!!!
My wife is Ukrainian, this soldier said the same thing she said about the protests. “They aren’t really protesting, look how they just let those police take that woman. There are thousands and they just watch. We wouldn’t let them arrest that woman, and that’s why we are different”
You could always see the same thing on TV when they still showed protests. Really amazing to see people just taken out like a sheep from the herd and absolutely nobody does anything because out of fear thay they might be arrested also. They don't seem to realise that they can't arrest thousands of people, even in Rssia. But they are all turned into zombies.
Ukrainians are free people who always had to fight for it💛💙
Ukrainians are descendants of the cossacks along with others. The cossacks whole thing was freedom. They actually did a lot of the czar's dirty work but they also freed slaves. Really really interesting people.
Demonstrating does not make any sense! For what? They will get 10 years in prison if they demonstrate against Putin! For you it's of course easy to say!
They are doing the right thing by not demonstrating!
The worse was of him
was saying - his comrades 😱 and was killer.
Greetings from Los Angeles, California, USA, My Ukrainian Friends!!
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦✌🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Down to earth and sane man.
Yet even he ended up invading another country. At least he made the right choice at the end: surrender
Too much of an independant thinker to throw his life away.
He was not fast enough to get away, and not smart enough to find out a reason not to be mobilized! And he did fell for the e-mail!
@@karinjohansson7262 He hinted at something very wise: protest against human rights being taken away! That's a very good point, it's not a protest against the war, which could put you in jail, but an effort to protect your given rights, against the collapse of a democratic state. For example protest against laws being made, without even granting law makers the time to look into the text they have to vote on, well give their okay to. (And if you have to feel so ashamed, mixing up the vote buttons and being the only 1 NO against 99 YES, something is very fishy... Why can't there be any NO about something you had no chance to read?)
They try to paint it as if someone was a traitor, in case he would speak out against not providing time to read it, but it's just their tactic trying to get away with it, because it's actually their duty to provide the information before it is formed into a law by voting on it. There is no functioning parliament, if the members of the parliament cannot read what they vote on. If someone doesn't even provide the time to read it, he must be very afraid in case others could read it. Someone trustworthy wouldn't behave like someone wanting to hide something, but he would want to prove his honesty by handing out the text with enough time to check it. The claim, that voters should trust it and if they don't, they are traitors, doesn't count, because even a voter being on their side should be able to read it. If it's physically to read it in time, why do they even provide it in a fraction of the time needed. So nobody can say it wasn't even handed out to vote on? Are they afraid to admit, they don't want a parliament anymore?
Good for him. Not many people can walk away after a war, body intact.
He has to go back to the country that he now knows lied to him and threw him away like garbage. He'll get no counseling or support, and vodka's cheap. His body won't last that long, either. The only chance he has is the humanity the Ukrainians show him. His own people don't care, and he knows it.
Let's hope the FSB doesn't punish him when he is returned.
If he is lucky the FSB won't exist when he returns
@@abrahamdozer6273 Ukraine don't force anyone to be exchanged if they don't wants it!
@@karinjohansson7262 The Geneva Convention demands it. After WWII there were thousands of German POWs who wanted to stay in Canada but they had to be sent back to Germany under the Geneva Convention. Thousands made it back to Canada after repatriation. I knew two of them myself.
Slava Ukraini! ❤🇺🇸
Glory to the brave defenders of Ukraine!💙💛💪
And this one is one of those who, at least, informed himself a bit and put himself some minimal questions, so imagine others. Pure worthless cannon fodder sent to kill and destroy.
Their entire society since 1917 has been engineered by professional psychologists to produce people just like this. No one was ever better at controlling the population's minds than the Soviets. Possibly the Kims, but that's a religion. The brand name changed, but the culture hasn't.
@@loupgarou-dj3tm Vodka is cheap and freely available there for a reason.
He is a very lucky man! Seems more intelligent than the average russian orc, he is certainly right to say that there is ‘no critical thinking’ by the average person in Russia, they just do as they are told, because of no political freedom, and low educational standards. Victory to Ukraine!🇺🇦🔱Slava Ukrajina!🇺🇦🔱
Much like Americans, we've Trump Nahaly, media spewing the party line, political thinking, message agenda, rigged elections, a corrupt crook as a president, mindlessly Saying my country's best.
Many Young are very critical, but they do it in a discrete way!
I am glad he was wise enough to give up.
Quite an intelligent guy. I'm glad he chose life.
A Russian who speaks the truth 👈👍Because of no TV perhaps 🤔
Keep this guy in ukraine. He's smart.
Very telling interview… thank you for sharing. It is very hard for us in the free world to understand how the Russians accept this war, this is insightful. I hope his surrender serves him and his family well.
From what I've heard they don't support it. They endure it. The kinds of wild stories Russian media floods the western information space with, they flood their own information space with doubly so. I have heard it claimed that this has lead many Russians to disengage from politics completely.
So it was a matter of, well, if they only send volunteers and "mercenaries" why risk protesting and getting beaten half to death by riot police?
It's not as if they could skip the protesting and just vote for new leadership either.
There are a lot of other factors, too. There is a whole class of cities in Russia that were built by the Soviets for specific industries (and probably to colonize remote provinces).
People in these towns depend on their industry jobs. They act like social services. If the government does not feed these cities business and keep their employees' pensions up, they will see actual political action.
This phenomenon may be another source for the limited support for the war that we do see among Russians.
The short version is, there are a lot of different demographics of people in Russia. You get all types, including the type that leave the country forever because they hate it so much, or who blow up railroads and recruitment offices.
The main driving force behind the war, though, is the dictator Putin, and his many concubines that own all of Russia's industries.
There aren't many people left in Russia who can tell these people no.
Just manipulated russians or evil one accept this war!
The others can't do anything about it!!!
💪🇪🇦 SLAVA UKRAINE. GLORY TO THE HEROES.
Prisoner hit it spot on in his description of the Russian system. At least some sensible folks among them.... good
He looks like an ethnic minority Russian, which most are in Vladivostok.
The city was originally Hai Shen Wai as Chinese land, before Russia annexed it.
Glad this soldier is being treated humanely, with respect for his person and his honor.
He makes a lot of sense. Other Russian soldiers have also wondered, why not improve conditions for people in Russia rather than invade another country.
This war has moved Russians backwards.
Слава Україні 💙💛
Героям Слава 💙💛
🇺🇲 🇺🇦
He also made the point that if Ukrainians want to be Russian why couldn’t they just move to Russia. There’s plenty of room.
This is not accurate, there are at least 122 different nationalities within what constitutes Russia today.
The indigenous people of Vladivostok look like Mongols. This guy definitely isn’t one of them he’s from another ethnic group.
@@marymarlow3646 you mean the ruzzians that ruzzia bussed there! Very few real Ukrainians wants to go to ruzzia
I wish this interview could be broadcast to the population in Russia
I think it can.
This orc has started to evolve into a human. There is hope!
What an intelligent Russian. Good man
Seems like he would be a great Ukrainian..
Lucky you are not in a box invader
Slava Ukraini ⛳
Feel sorry for this young man..but he sees it as it is in his country.. BLESS him Bless ukraine 🇺🇦🙏🇺🇦 from Holland 🙏🇺🇦
Trench professor and and absolutely stunning level of intelligence, Ukraine thank you for saving this Russian's life. God Bless!
Remember, a hero who throws away their weapon not willing to fight an unjust war.
Russia will need people like that one in a few years.
Glory to our Ukrainian heroes who still have humanity and compassion to POW = Human beings
He's a smart guy. He put his finger on it: It has to be a COORDINATED resistance if it's ever to win. But I'm not holding my breath. The Russian psyche is all about living under the radar, out of any and all spotlights, and trying to survive from day to day, even if that means decades of a dreary, substandard, unrewarding, and unpleasant existence.
Keep up your courage, relentlessness and cautiousness Ukraine. Stay strong and resilient - you will prevail!!! 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦
Leaflet them from the air , tell them to surrender tell them it's all over there not talking to each other
What a great interview , l had so much time to listen to this guy. He actually got so many things spot on ! Hope all goes well for him, but l doubt he’ll go back to Russia when released. I think he’s learnt so much more about the real world !
This young soldier's reflections on his country's issues with lack of education and rampant stealing by their hierarchy should appear in Russia's information space!
Most russians know their society is corrupt, they just hope one day they will be in a position to steal their way to riches. Just like republican voters that don't earn 250k a year.
This POW shows significant promise and I am very glad that he seems to be "seeing the light" - but actions speak louder than words, and after these POWs are returned to Russia, they must NEVER come back to Ukraine, ever again, or they might not be so lucky!
Victory to Ukraine!
Many of them are traumatized of the war!
The command structure of the Ukrainian military is the same command structure as NATO forces. That structure is successful. I look forward to Ukraine joining NATO! 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Thank you. Please protect Russian POW as they could also be forced to fight and victims of Putins regime. From Vancouver 🇨🇦
Putin is the one who should be a prisoner not some bloke from a village in the middle of nowhere
I really like this guy. He seems to get it. Unfortunately he does not speak to the masses.
But we should say that we don't know about masses. It is the late Gen-x,millennials and zoomer that actively use the internet and play video games, watch youtube and speak English because they understand that they need to get out and find work in countries with normal work situations. That is my assumption, based on many personal things I admit, but I like to think positive about them so they can change Russia in time.
I dunno, personally I am waiting for the boomers to go away world wide, the outdated thinking comes from not using the internet to i.e socially connect with the world,etc.
well, plus all the rest they don't know about the world.
"It seems to me, that the whole problem is in the lack of proper education in our country. That has been greatly lowered, and most likely this means that our people have no critical thinking. Firstly,as they get information from only one source, and secondly they are not able to do anything with this information. They don't rethink it, they don't dig into it, they don't think."
If there any Americans reading this, does this seem at all familiar to you?
unfortunately, yes. It's bad.
Guy lit the cigarette filter first. Yuck.
Young man you have down the right thing glory to the Ukrainians ppl watching from Guyana 🇬🇾🇬🇾
It is a policy of Putin to confuse people so much they lose interest in politics.
Sounds like you talk about Moscowites! In a video where they asked young about politics they said Moscovites is so apolitical! While it seems in St Petersburg they actually knows more and speak up more. University city which makes it more political!!
Slowly but surely the knowledge of being ignored and deceived will start circulating among the Russians. How eager to fight are such soldiers? If only this useless, cruel war would soon be over, and the Russians would understand to go home. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦💙💛
You are now in good hand❤
I hope his family is safe now that he has spoken so frankly. He should not be exchanged until his government is more humane. I’d worry about his safety if he returned to Russia.
I am very happy to hear that his platoon did not have the type of Commander that threatened to kill anyone who wanted to surrender. It's too bad the commander decided to continue to fight and lose his life for nothing, but I commend him for at least letting his subordinates surrender to save their own lives.
If platoon leader was KIA he actually tried to lead by example.
@@vksasdgaming9472 well it doesn't do the person who is killed any good making such a dumb decision because if you are dead, you cannot be proud of your decision, because you are dead. Now if you were fighting on your own turf trying to defeat an enemy that is trying to steal your land, then I can totally understand why it would be worth trying to kill as many of the enemy as you can before you get killed yourself, but the cause that these Russian soldiers are being forced to fight for, is not worth dying for if you can help it. At least this is my opinion anyways.
He was very lucky. Often if some Russians surrender but a fanatic then comes out behind them shooting or with a grenade, the Ukrainians normally scythe all of them down.
There’s video of this happening earlier in the war.
@@brucecook502 At least that platoon leader was trying to actually lead his unit. It seems very rare thing in russonazi mob.
@@supertuscans9512 that is not true!
I'm shocked that the Russian commanders treat their soldiers so callously and make them feel like shit before they are thrown into battle
Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Salva!
I do hope the intel they get from captured orcs is useful. This guy is very lucky, if he and three others surrendered but a 4th person came out throwing grenades they all could have been shot which would not have been a crime under the Geneva convention. Slava Ukraini.
This guy gets it , he actually understands what's going on.
Never stop a war criminal from killing himself.
This is the first war in the modern social media world, and has the best recorded insight into what troops do and think.
Smart man. Almost feel sorry for him.
That young man seems educated. I'm glad he made to become a POW and not a KIA.RLTW
Appropriate treatment of prisoners is vital. It helps ensure safety of callied prisoners and allows for exchange. And it can be much easier to capture large numbers of the enemy rather than have them fight to the death. Intelligence information is also useful as well as propaganda value. In some cases they can also work. Such as with farming to feed themselves. And there is a moral value.
During the early years of WW2 the British treated German POW, mainly from the Luftwaffe, extremely well. The intelligence they gathered was far far more than could have been achieved by torture or treating the prisoners badly. A POW treated well will be relaxed, much more inclined to engage in conversation, and much more likely to be unguarded with their answers.
I liked the way he talked about the different styles of the armies. Ukraine uses the small unit tactics developed by the West relying on moving and communications as opposed to the herd mentality tactics that Russia has always used.💙💛👍💪
Ukraine is fighting a modern war while ruzzia is stiil in WW 1! A military expert here said that!
I hope other Russians see this video.
The Kremlin fear that kind of vidéo more than anything else.
How can they live in the denied of reality like that is senseless to me...
These videos are important. Future generations will be grateful to have them.
What a brilliant young man Putin decided to waste. Thanks to Ukraine for showing Putin what it means to be human
His own choice to go. Why didn't he do like the real smart ones that went to join the Ukrainian army the first week of the war?
It looks like he's reading what they want us to here in parts
One of the brighter & most well spoken of the Orc POW's. He seems to have a grasp of the situation. Even before he entered Ukraine. Too bad he missed the fact of just not going. Not many are sitting in jail for refusing to go yet.
Life under a dictator holds back thinking people it doesn’t work for prosperity of the country ,old jimmy Aust
I'd guess that at least half of what he's telling them is what they want to hear. One can hardly blame him for that. Hopefully, he learns the proper lessons and will do what he can to not support his country's aggressive ways.
Did he say us soliders came up to them?
I totally understand him..
Smart guy!
Did he just smoke a cigarette holding it the opposite way? What a mad lad.
Yes that was really mad.
Wow. People in America don't appreciate how lucky they are
He is 1 of the lucky Orcs, he lives another day if Putin wants him to.
I would love to hear stories from the Ukrainian prisoners that were exchanged.
Wow this guy really does see the big picture
Smart man. Clear thinking. Maybe a university something.
Wow, the actual rare exception of at least some critical thinking capability. He describes perfectly how painfully rare he actually is in Ruzzia, tho, as he describes the police scenario and the tv programming.
Also don't forget the fact that he did go to Ukraine with weapons in order to kill people trying to defend their country, however, so for all of his talk he's the same coward as those who stand by and accept the brutal repression of their own fellow citizens.
30% of Russia doesn't have indoor plumbing, in the rural areas in the East. What are the chances they have VPN? Almost zero. If you're in that situation, even if you figure out the government is lying, you have no way of finding out the truth. It's simply not available.
What a damning indictment of russia.
A grenade could not trash a dugout any worse than what I've seen of Russian positions.
Slava Ukraine
Interesting interview. He seems to confirm what most think about Russia. Rich get richer and the poor stay poor. Most have reached a state of complacency. Just can't do anything about it so why try?. I suppose the next question is where does he go from here. If the interpretation is correct, he gave over information about troop placements that would likely cause harm to other Russians. That alone would be cause for a firing squad. Of course, just giving up is cause for death as well. He better pray that Ukraine wins the war and that Putin is eliminated. Maybe the next ruler will say this war was wrong and just do the right thing. The thing is, this guy seems to have some intelligence about him. Russia has so many natural resources that they should not be in this situation and this guy should not be in this situation.
The way that the Russian Armed Forces and Command are set up, from the days of the Communist Cells, ensures that the average soldier knows little other than what happens at his squad level. He is usually not told anymore than what he NEEDS to know, i.e., "You will stay in this trench and repel the enemy!" Therefore it's doubtful that he gave his interrogators any useful information of immediate combat value!
@@khiem1939 - I would say that's how a large part of their society is set up. Know enough to get by and let the party deal with it. They'll take care of me. I
How very sad that this young Russian (and his colleagues) has been put through this - for nothing other than PUtin's hubris. He is right that Russians themselves have to band together and speak out to bring an end to this evil.
Incredible account. I like this guy, despite his being russian. Glad his Z colleagues didn't waste him. Can't believe *there was a Captain in there with him... must be the Company command post...?
This guy should be the President of Russia
No i have better candidates for that. Konstantin from Inside Russia for example!
@@karinjohansson7262 I was about to say that
A smart one
Damn, he smoking a black and mild? Must be nice, Semper Fi.
OMG...
He thinks clearly...😳😲🤔
He complains about 1 person protesting, arrested by 10 officers and the rest just walk away. Where was HE? Will he walk away again after this?
people won't take a risk if it's not going to be effective. Let's say you do it. No one else does and you spend 15 years in prison. At least this guy went to a rally. That's very risky thing to do in Russia. It's not like where you and I live.
I've seen videos of vloggers attending rallies. They had to leave the country afterwards. One of them never even made it to the rally before he had half a dozen policemen chasing him.
POW, mandatory construction workers. #NATO 🇺🇸
The hardest part of this war is not to start hating Russians and have a smile your face when they die. We know that we are on the right side of history. My grandfather who gave refugee to jews during WW2, said that he never hated the Germans. "Because hate will fester your soul and you will end up committing the same atrocities to your enemy. Even if you win the war, you will have lost your humanity".
The smartest Russian i have heard to bad there not all like him 🤔
so many russians kill themselves when being bombarded by drones. they know they have no hope of escape and just want to escape the pain and fear
Send that guy to school give him 4 million dollars and send him back to Russia.
If only more Russians would open their eyes like this.
Many have!
He's quite intelligent and underlines it all: there is no solidarity among them, no critical thinking, and everyone minds their own business. 🙈🙉🙊
Please do as LVIV Media, let us listen to his words with sub titles, some of us want from the horses mouth, having learnt languages.
It's ironical that a pow is able to speak freely as opposed to what's happening in his own homeland, this war is madness.
Is guy has enough critical thinking. He should go underground in Russia.
Should do subtitles so there's no question on legitimacy of what is spoken.