# Russian POW describes surrender and conditions at military positions - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2105323755820249309 - Source account: [@front_ukrainian](https://x.com/front_ukrainian) - Source language: Russian - Target language: English - Duration: 4:27 - Published: 2026-09-30 - Machine translated. 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[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=3) Move along, move along. Count off by number. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=7) First. Second. Third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=12) Twenty-seventh. Twenty-eight. Twenty-nine. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=16) Thirty. Fifty-one. Fifty-two. Fifty-three. [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=19) Fifty-four. Seventy-seven. Seventy-eight. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=23) Seventy-nine. Eighty. Eighty-one. Eighty-two. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=29) Eighty-third, eighty-fourth. Eighty-five. [0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=34) Eighty-six. Eighty-eight. Eighty-nine. Ninety. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=37) Ninety-one. Ninety-two. Ninety-three. Ninety-four. Count complete. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=44) Fiksa! Here! To address me, step out of formation. [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=47) Yes, sir. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=53) I, Captain Third Rank Aleksandr Mamontov Gennadyevich, my land forces rank is Major, a serviceman of the Third Rifle Battalion. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=60) I am appealing to our command regarding our surrender. [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=64) We surrendered to the Third Army Corps because we did not want to die for nothing. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=70) Our officers just ran away. They turned off the radio and said, “Set up a perimeter defense, hold out.” That was it. The radio was off. [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=78) We had no water at our positions, so we had to drink water from puddles. We had to drink our own urine. [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=85) One of us died there, fuck, from dehydration of the body, for fuck’s sake. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=89) We had no food, so we had to eat tree bark and grass. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=95) We ate nettles, meaning we made nettles on a burner with a little broth. [1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=101) We starved, sitting there for a fucking month and a half. [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=104) This is the first time I’ve eaten properly, I mean, in captivity. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=108) We had no medicine to provide aid to our wounded soldiers. [1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=112) Three wounded men died because there were no medicines, they weren't evacuated. [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=119) Was there a chance to get out? There was, but they weren't allowed to. [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=123) Upon surrendering, soldiers of the Third Assault Army Corps provided full and proper care to wounded servicemen. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=133) They removed a piece of shrapnel from my head, removed a piece of shrapnel from my side. Nobody, well, I mean, forced me to do anything at all. [2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=141) It was bed rest, basically. Our command simply forgot about us. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=145) We were expendable to them, so it was decided to surrender. I want to appeal to the servicemen of the Russian Federation. Don't be afraid to surrender. [2:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=155) The propaganda being spread among us is nothing but pure lies. Here, you are guaranteed food, water, adequate meals and decent conditions of detention. [2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=167) And what we were told is complete bullshit. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=171) About how prisoners are treated, how they're beaten and castrated. [2:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=175) About construction foam and so on, and things like that. [2:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=179) As you can see, everything's fine. And what they tell them there is untrue, they're normal people and understand everything. [3:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=187) Do you agree with me, comrades? [3:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=193) Yes, sir! All right, men, relax. Take your seats. Carry on. [3:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=198) Yes, sir. [3:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=203) See how fucking great it is that there are so many of them. That's very good. [3:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=207) First and foremost, they'll make a good pool for prisoner exchanges. [3:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=210) You know what I like most? That now they're aware, because they've been on both sides: on the side where they saw the horrors of war caused by their command, and now here, they've seen that they're treated as they should be. [3:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=223) They're provided with everything: help, this, that, and the other. [3:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=227) That's it. And now they'll push this information to the masses even further. [3:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=231) This, too, will have a positive effect on our war in its own way. [3:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=235) So, aren't we friends? Ten, follow me. [3:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=238) (Not translated) мной. [4:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=241) Two, provide cover. Get in. Help with Hentu, for fuck's sake, you're the Russian army, we don't abandon our own. [4:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tkQRxwc9KEi/en/russian-pow-describes-surrender-and-conditions-at-military-positions?t=266) Get up.