Military Supply Issues in Ukraine

Greetings, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

of Ukraine,

Major General Mykhailo Vasylovych Drapatyi.

I am the commander of the fire support platoon of the fire support company of the third

battalion, military unit A7049.

We are on temporary assignment with the second battalion of unmanned systems of military

unit A7049, in the Zaporizhzhia sector.

We would like to raise some problematic issues concerning our temporary assignment.

We arrived on temporary assignment to replace seven servicemen

who had spent eight months in positions without

rotation.

And the duration of our assignment, as we were told, was one

month. But from April until now,

we have remained in the positions.

We were told that there were reserve positions, primary

positions, and that they were ready for occupancy. But as it turned out, that is not the case.

We were told that their supplies and logistics were all set up,

and that they dropped everything to everyone

from drones. And that isn't true either.

We are currently in a shelter that we found because all the positions were destroyed.

There have been no food or drinking water supplies for three to

seven days.

When I was at another position, while my personnel were at

another position, they received nothing at all for twelve

days, neither

drinking water nor food.

Given the situation, uh, to support our

bodies, we drink our own urine and wait

for them to drop us at least something.

They destroyed our Starlink, and we only had radio communications

and asked them to drop us a Starlink, but all we got in response was a plus

and

that was it. Our acquaintances bought us our Starlink two weeks ago

but we only received

it three days ago. And even then, I found out by accident,

that we have a personal

Starlink. Our families and our battalion command

were told that we

had everything we needed and were fully supplied. But that is not true.

For all my personnel, they drop packages containing four kilograms

of food and three bottles of water, while others receive nine kilograms each.

And if they do not drop water to them at night, they drop it during the day.

But when I ask over the radio for supplies to be dropped to us,

I get various excuses in response, and we

wait for nightfall to receive the packages.

We order medicine, and I also receive it late, and sometimes I do not

receive it at all. Some of my service members spent several days

in

a semi-conscious state from lack of water and food.

I have decided that, when conditions are favorable, my

personnel and I will leave our positions without waiting for relief, because we have neither the strength

nor the ability to remain in our positions.

We are not refusing to serve, but we have no other choice.

We are asking for a corridor

for safe passage from here and

transport for evacuation.

All the other authorities we contacted, they did not help us.

You are our only hope.

We don't know whether we'll live until the time when

weather conditions become favorable, or whether the enemy will destroy us,

or whether our own, uh, commanders will destroy us, who

are commanding us now while we are away on assignment.

Respectfully, Lieutenant Anatolii Oleksandrovych Seichuk.

We hope for your understanding and

your help, and that you will not abandon us in this trouble,

because we want to return home, to our families, to our loved ones.

We are not refusing to fight for our country,

but we ask that you at least

provide us with food and water, and that

rotations be carried out in accordance with the law.