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Captured Ukrainian serviceman Igor Stepanko urges his former comrades to ignore the leadership and lay down their arms:‘I hate my command and I wish all of my guys do not listen to them, they deceive us all the time. They don't tell the truth. They deceive us, I saw our guys, bones, corpses, they don't evacuate anyone, neither wounded, nor killed. Think about it, surrender, they will treat you well here. If you want to live, see your family and parents, I urge you, please, surrender, guys’.
Stepanko himself was lucky: he found a leaflet explaining how to contact Russian servicemen and surrender.
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Russian Defence Ministry