Russian soldier surrenders after talking to his mother, in a viral video. The video shows a soldier crying after being offered food from Ukrainian civilians.
They also helped him call his mother. The alleged Russian soldier was offered a cup of tea and a pastry. Soon after that, he was made to talk to his mother. The woman on the call consoled the crying soldier as she said, “Everything will be okay, my son.”
A voice in the video was heard saying in Ukrainian: “These young men, it’s not their fault. They don’t know why they are here. They are using old maps, they are lost.”
On Twitter, the video was captioned, “Russian soldiers, surrender, Ukrainian people will feed you, just surrender.”
According to the international media outlets, the young man is a Russian soldier who surrenders after being captured by Ukraine. One of the other women is heard speaking to his mother, saying: ‘Natasha, God be with you. We will call you later. He is alive and healthy.’
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The video has since then gone viral in both Russia and Ukraine. People have praised the Ukrainian women who showed compassion to the man and offered him food.
Several people said that the man in the video is like other Russian soldiers who have been captured by the Ukrainian army.
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Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, from the verified account, claimed that mothers could travel from Russia to Ukraine if they found their child was in captivity. Ukrainian forces have claimed to have captured thousands of Russian soldiers, a claim fiercely denied by Russia.
‘It was decided to give the captured Russian soldiers to their mothers if they come to Ukraine, to Kyiv for them,’ it read.
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The ministry also provided the email address and number that could be used to find a soldier if he was in captivity or has died. In case of death, and if they wanted to collect the body, they would have to get to Kaliningrad or Minsk in Belarus before taking a taxi to the Polish border where they could be escorted to a handover point.