2023-07-01 09:00:00
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REPORTING. Two Russian prisoners recount, the day after their capture, the conditions on the Bakhmout front.
From our special envoy to Ukraine, Boris Mabillard A Ukrainian soldier near Bakhmout, June 17, 2023. © ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP Published on 01/07/2023 at 09:00
The special forces depending on the intelligence of the Ukrainian army (the GUR) have set up their headquarters in a discreet building tens of kilometers from the front line. A long corridor opens onto empty rooms whose windows have been darkened. In one of them, soldiers surround a man seated in front of a desk, his fatigues unkempt. The tone is joking and the atmosphere relaxed, but the seated soldier shows signs of nervousness: he is a Russian prisoner of war questioned by the Ukrainian secret services before his transfer to an ordinary detention camp. A contrasting image emerges from the testimonies of prisoners of war: an army in rags alongside elite units.
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