Ukrainian soldiers from Avdeevka front line complain about their situation

Machine translation: "We were performing combat tasks near Avdeevka settlement, we were in zero position illegally. During the entire time we lost 70% of our personnel (on the footage all those who survived). When we expressed our distrust to the battalion command about the fact that there was a verbal order to occupy and hold positions without heavy equipment and artillery, only with machine guns and four magazines. The road to the positions and the position is regularly shot through with mortars, cluster mines and so on by the Russian military. There is no logistics, communication, and cohesion between units.

They send them to the front line without reference to the terrain. No basic means of communication are provided. Officers, commanders, medics were not with us at the positions. There was no proper evacuation of the wounded, they waited 12 hours or more for help. The dead were not taken away. No one was looking for the missing, they were not even interested in them. No one supplied water or food to the positions. We repeatedly appealed to the battalion command about providing us with proper weapons to repel enemy attacks, but we were ignored. On 25.05.2022 our helmets, flak jackets and weapons were taken from us at the front line, namely in the village of Umanska. We stayed there without protection until 30.05.2022. Also we were not paid our pay and bonus for direct participation in combat operations. We were transferred to another unit without our consent to the security company of the third division of the Melitopol rpc and sep. And our command wants to turn us into deserters. Despite the fact that we want to go into battle to defend our country. The Zaporizhzhya regional military enlistment office knows that Colonel Khobot is turning Ukraine's defenders into diserters. And instead of stopping, on the contrary hides this crime. We appeal to everyone who cares to help us overcome this lawlessness and once again stand up for the Ukrainian people and state".