‘Commanders Said That They Are Meat, That's Why They Were Brought There’

Russian mobilized troops were thrown to the slaughter near Makiivka.

The AFU fighters defeated a whole battalion of mobilized Russians тear the village of Makiivka, Svatove district, Luhansk region. Only 29 occupiers out of the 570 survived.

TV Rain journalists spoke to the relatives of two surviving soldiers and tried to reconstruct the picture of the hostilities.

According to one of the channel's interlocutors, who kept in touch with her mobilized brother as much as possible, on November 1, a battalion of 560 people was brought to the Luhansk region and immediately sent to the front line.

“The commanders said that they are meat, that's why they were brought there, they will kill them all anyway. They gave them one sapper shovel for 30 people and told them to dig trenches for themselves,” says a sister of one mobilized soldier. After that, the commanders told the fighters that they were going to get food for them and left.

After 40 minutes, the mobilized troops came under fire, which lasted three days. A relative of another mobilized soldier claims that the battalion had no weapons other than four grenades.

After the shelling, when the survivors gathered, there were 31 of them - out of 560. The fate of the rest of the soldiers is unknown.

The surviving mobilized reached Svatove, after they reached the city, they called their relatives. There they settled in groups in abandoned houses. They are coming under fire when trying to go out.

The mobilized, with whose relatives the TV channel spoke, cannot name the exact place where they were shelled. According to Verstka, this could be Makiivka, a city located about 30 kilometers southwest of Svatove, in the direction from the border of the Belgorod region, where the battalion came from, to the border of Kharkiv.