Captured corporal Ageev: Yes, I'm a contractor

The corporal of the Russian army, Viktor Ageev, who was captured in the Luhansk region at the end of June, admitted that he arrived in Ukraine not on his own initiative, but by order of the command. The prune made such a statement in an interview with TSN published in the evening of June 9.

In March of this year, Ageev said, he signed a contract from the Ministry of Defense and went to serve in the military unit No. 65246 in Novocherkassk. There are a communication regiment and the training center of the Russian Air Force.

Four days later, the corporal was sent to Ukraine. Together with him, 38-year-old Alexander Shcherba (Alex), commander of the reconnaissance group, went to the neighboring country. He died in the very battle in which Ageev was captured.

Sending to Ukraine is called the Russian military "flight". In addition to his flights, he did not report certain information about other “flights”, but confirmed that they really were.

According to the plot of TSN, at first the military from the group of Shcherba received combat experience in Ukraine, and then they were transferred to Syria. Such a scheme is called by Russians "Syrian express."

When asked by the journalist, did it seem strange to Ageev that he was only sent to the war four days after arrival, the prisoner replied: "I did not go deeper like that. The money is paid - and ... the service is the service."

Meanwhile, as Interfax reports , the press service of the Southern Military District (South Academy of Sciences) called Ageev’s interview with a “fake” and “cutting with a sample of words and phrases needed by Ukrainian propagandists.” "Viktor Ageev more than a year ago was military service under a contract, after which in the spring of 2016 he quit the reserve and had no longer any relation to the military service," the military said, emphasizing that there was no and no in the Lugansk existing Russian troops.

In South Africa, they also argue that the command of the military unit in which Ageev was serving is allegedly not in Novocherkassk, but in another city and therefore could not conclude a contract with him there. In addition, the military is assured, in the Russian army the commanders of the units do not have the right to conclude contracts on their own, and for admission to the service it is necessary to undergo training, which lasts about a month.

Ageev was captured on June 24 at the village of Zelobok during the battle as part of the LPR reconnaissance group. As reported in the Ukrainian 93rd separate mechanized brigade, in addition to the Russian corporal, three more LPR militants were captured; Another action movie - Sniper - died, as well as Shcherba.

The media then reported that Ageev served in the 22nd Separate Guards Brigade of the GRU special forces based not in Novocherkassk, but in Bataisk. Photos of a corporal with symbols of the GRU, as well as with weapons in the form without identification marks, were published. He previously published these pictures on social networks.

Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Ageev resigned to the reserve in the summer of 2016 at the end of military service. In turn, in the LPR, the corporal was called the "volunteer."

On June 29, Svetlana Ageeva, the prisoner’s mother, asked to help the apple party in the liberation of her son . The next day, Ageeva’s similar request to Vladimir Putin was published.