Sergeant Sapar M. Mirapov wrote in his personal statement to the commander of the Military Unit #61899: “… I hereby report that I consider it impossible to re-deploy due to the unit’s poor organization, lack of communications and technical means. [On my original tour], I arrived without understanding why I was needed there, without any explanations of the task. I don’t want to be ‘cannon fodder.’”

Junior Sergeant Alexander A. Pugachev informed his battalion commander that he “… refuses to participate again in the military hostilities in Ukraine due to the lack of logistical support, absence of coordination of actions, absence of any communication within the unit and with the command.”

Lieutenant A. Yegorov, stated that “… from the very beginning we were faced with [the command’s] deception and concealment of the true goals and tasks of the military deployment. Incomprehensible ‘military exercise tasks’ meant a dramatically different thing … After our crossing the border into Ukraine, we completely discredited ourselves in the eyes of both the world and the Slavic community. From that moment on, our actions and nature were of an occupation army, which was clearly expressed by the reaction of the civilian population.

Below are photocopies of other personal statements of the soldiers of the Russian military.
[link to euromaidanpress.com (secure)]