“We were fired on from the left and right. With mortars, Grads. After 8 hours of shelling, when you are lying in a grave dug for yourself, you understand where something is flying from.”
Aleksey Agafonov says that the mobilized were sent from the village of Krasnorechenskoye in the Luhansk region to the “third line of defense”, which was under Ukrainian shelling from November 1 to 2. The commanders assured that their platoon would be 15 km from the front, and in front of them – two more lines of defense.
He says that of the two platoons with which they held the defense on 100 meters of terrain, about 10 people died.
Alexey and his colleague Dmitry, with whom the BBC also spoke, claim that there is not a single officer left in Svatovo – 20 km from Krasnorechensky – who could give them any command. The platoon commander of Alexei and Dmitry ended up in the hospital with a shell shock. The lieutenant is gone.
The fact that mobilized from the Voronezh region came under fire in the Lugansk region and suffered losses of 500 people was reported on Saturday by the publication “Layout” with reference to the same Alexei Agafonov and relatives of other servicemen from the Voronezh region.
Agafonov, in a conversation with the BBC, clarified that more than 500 mobilized people were indeed sent from Voronezh to Krasnorechenskoye, and then towards Makeevka, and he does not know the fate of the majority. Agafonov has no evidence that they all died.
The BBC Russian service talked to the mobilized survivors and relatives of the victims about what is happening at the front in the Lugansk region.
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