why didn't we, we just had to dig dugouts, trenches, and there was nothing, you'll throw in , i mostly dug, i didn't kill a single ukrainian soldier, i had a shovel and a pickaxe instead of a machine gun , i didn't take part in combat , that's how we fight.

and i have a ukrainian passport and a russian passport, i somehow didn't even think about it, and is there anything you regret? i don't know, crimea and sevastopol. are returning to their native harbor. russia, russia, russia. i'll cry, to fulfill my military duty with dignity debt.

this is a russian prisoner of war from crimea, sentenced under the article of treason to 15 years. the crimean did not want us to show his face, but agreed to talk to us. at his request, we will not disclose his personal information. all, we can, yes, say, please, do you know the ukrainian language, do you understand? i know it, but i do not understand all the words. it is more convenient if i speak russian, yes, fine, we do not have the right to talk to you without your permission, without your consent, to record this conversation and then publish it, please tell me, are you not against talking to us, and so that we can then partially publish this material, where will this material be shown on youtube, on youtube, well, everyone will see it on their laptop?

but you won't be visible, well, let's talk, but i'm telling you, i'm not very , well, sociable, that is, you don't mind talking, but you don't know what to tell, yes, i don't know what to tell, so i have questions, just so you can answer them, you don't mind, maybe there are questions that i can simply not answer, okay, if you can't or don't want to, you say, i won't answer this question or i don't want to, that's it, let's do it this way then,

this man is 51 years old, he was born in crimea and lived there his whole life. the sentence of the crimean, which was published on the website of the judicial authority of ukraine, says that he is a native of the city of kerch, a citizen of ukraine, has secondary education , is married and has not been previously convicted on the territory of ukraine, was not under surveillance psychiatrist narcologist. he signed a contract with the russian ministry of defense voluntarily, told us how he decided to join the army. how did you end up here and how did you end up in the ranks of the russian army, were you mobilized or did you sign a contract? i'm a contract soldier, i signed, well, when i get it, i'll be like we were sitting with friends. we were singing, you know, like one word led to another, well, like everyone was saying, well, let's go, as they say, well, all of you , well, all of you guys, damn, in general, well, it turned out that i went, damn, my friends, i didn't see anyone, military registration and enlistment office, yes, the military registration and enlistment office

took the documents in the morning, went to the military registration and enlistment office, nashkevsky military registration and enlistment office, well, that's it, i arrived there, at first they told me, think about it , okay, you already have... they gave him 2 days to pack his things and come to perevalnoye, they promised that he would be in the reserve. at first they told me that i would be like in a reserve regiment, i asked them how much time i had, well, to sort out my affairs. anyway, 2 days later they called me, told me to come to simferopol with candles, with documents , that's all, well, the village of perevalnoye yes, that's how i ended up in the ranks of the is, everything is already a box, the case materials established that

in the summer of the twenty-third year, the man was enrolled in the seventy-first guards motorized rifle regiment of the russian federation, after which he underwent military training for 2 weeks.

where were you transferred, what task did they give you? we were not given any task, we just had to dig dugouts of the trench, well, as they say, well, but you had a weapon in principle, well, i had a machine gun, yeah, yeah, but i only shot with it, when well, that's it well, as they say, well, these well, at the exercises,

but as they say, i did not take part in combat, it turns out in the summer of 1923, in the summer, yes , you dig trenches, right? and how long did it last, well, you dug trenches, how long? until december . the case materials say that in december of 1923, this man, armed with a machine gun and ammunition for it, took direct part in combat operations as part of the 71st guards motorized rifle regiment. the number of the military unit is not disclosed, but the he claims that only the diggers. and how did you get captured then? this?

there is no such thing, well, in general , i got lost, well , and as they say, in the morning, when i woke up, damn, i found an eye there, damn, i slept there , in short. i went in the wrong direction, i came across these ukrainian armed forces of ukraine, the armed forces of ukraine, i understand, that is, you were leaving your position , that is, you did not storm the ukrainian positions, you were simply retreating from yours to the rear , went in the wrong direction, but the crimean admitted his guilt in court, repented, but denied that he took part in the fighting actions, in january of the twenty-fourth year their group was relocated in the area of the village of rabotina, pologovsky district. and there he was captured. he moved with a group of servicemen of the russian

federation without weapons, in new positions, they were promised to give them new weapons, he had a bulletproof vest and a magazine from a machine gun with him. when the shelling began, he hid in a trench, where he sat all night. in the morning of january 3, he tried to return to his positions, mixed up the direction and ended up in combat positions in the usu, where he was captured. one of the witnesses, a ukrainian serviceman , told the court that this man, when he was captured, had a passport, a military id and a bottle of water, and was without a machine gun or helmet. the convicted crimean assures that he regrets that he ended up at war, and that he joined the army to start a new life without alcohol. but i still want to understand, here are your personal motives, why you decided to join the army to fight.

lived identity, so they basically don’t care whether to fight or not, against whom for what, and for many, the svo becomes a certain social lift,” says ekaterina rashevskaya, legal expert at the regional center for human rights. i think that these methods, like the russian federation of vikorists, or actually lure these people onto the battlefield, are relevant , including for many categories of people, and this category, the stinks can be cumulative, add up one for... one, but people from low social backgrounds, for whom pennies are worth,

for whom special military operations are called, this is a social lift, serving, having taken away your pennies, surplus, having served, having taken away all sorts of other benefits, say, as they beat you into, your squad took away, your children took away costless trips to artek, and from you you are already a good father, are all the crimeans do they support them or are there those who also don’t understand why? which operation as such, no one can name the goals, but to be amazed,

the goals change simply because of the said fluidity, and further stink as if cyclically due to denazification, then here is the denazification again due to the war, so as not there was a war before any global peace and justice, marvel at the kazan declaration of the brics itself, where there are absolutely new standards and the beacon's release speaks of what... a fair order, where russia is the guarantor of world peace and be safe. in 1414, russia illegally annexed crimea. administrative buildings, strategic objects, and ukrainian actions were captured. most countries of the world held a so-called referendum on the status of the peninsula, as a result of which russia included crimea in its composition. in short, how did the fourteenth year go for you and was there a revolution, or what, when the annexation of crimea happened,

yes, that's how, how it happened, you witnessed some events in the fourteenth year, well... that was when it was well in kiev, this is what you mean by maidan? no, in crimea, when the annexation took place in february, when russian troops entered crimea in the fourteenth year, well , how russia annexed crimea in the fourteenth year, then there was a referendum, they went to the referendum, well, when to go over to russia, well well, i went to vote, i was just working then, yes, well, everyone voted, as they say, yeah, but i never thought that i would have dual citizenship.

since the republic of crimea does not have the right to self-identify as a separate power, the republic of crimea then votes in a referendum for annexation to russia and establishes treaties there on its own with putin, they did not have such a right, which is consistent with international law. the principle of self-esteem of peoples and nations, the principle of sovereign equality, however, is the power of what putin is hoping for, so that such a right would exist, and that people would believe in those who were surrounded by such a team of people who could create their own state, no matter what, you could not they created it, and then after the referendum, after russia came

, they also worked as a janitor, but i never went anywhere else, well, i worked all the time. then i didn’t work for two years, well, i looked after my grandparents, well, they were pensioners , they were both very sick, then when they were gone, damn it, i went again for this job, because i had to somehow feed myself and clothe myself and pay the rent, my life, i'm telling you, my life was not to hell.

with their russian passports, and then they asked me, do your parents have their own ukrainian passports? so i had to bring these non-passports of theirs ukrainian ones , these, what is it called , identification code, without them, well, they wouldn't give me documents, i don't know

how that is, we are in russia, damn it, it turns out that this passport, well, in general... ukraine, we are not visible, we are imposed russian citizenship, as it is done by the whole world. and what is there such a great number of traitors, well, it is simply a phenomenon from.

in april 2024 , a panel of judges found krymchanin, the last name is not disclosed in the verdict, guilty of committing a criminal offense under article 111 of the criminal code and sentenced him to 15 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. you are a citizen of ukraine, you took another citizenship and went to fight against your own country, that is, you with this basically don't argue. well, what are you pouring here, if damn, you've already been convicted under ukrainian laws, well, do you agree with this accusation or not,

well , is there something you regret, something spiritual, moral, that gnaws at you. well, would you like something, if there was such an opportunity to change in your life, is there an option to play everything back, what would you change, well, i would change my lifestyle, i would quit drinking like i did, i would go to war, no. "i don't want it anymore, i've had enough of this for the rest of my life, until i am alive".

it turns out that there was never any light in this house, so there was never a refrigerator, right? we love our land very much, that's why we didn't go anywhere, we lived here, despite the lack of light, life went on like in the forest, i am here for some reason, not just like that, but that there is some meaning from me, that i am useful to people, all over the screen for the first time, in general, children will watch something on the big screen for the first time.

boris nemtsov was shot near the kremlin. they killed my father, i can't just keep silent. i had no ambitions to become a public figure, an activist or anything like that. to imagine that my life would be like that, no, it is impossible. here we managed to do something absolutely incredible, i mean the foundation that you created here in germany, the boris nemtsov foundation,

there were many such events in fact, when i really felt the importance of everything that we were doing, but the main thing, the main thing, of course, was the beginning of a full-scale war. russia against ukraine, well, it seems to me that with , it seems to me that with russia's attack on ukraine, our profession hasn't changed, but it has gained some meaning. we worked here in some incredible conditions, a spontaneous canteen was organized on the work desks , food, sandwiches, coffee, tea were brought to us from above, because people in the editorial office didn't have time even to have a snack, we worked practically without stopping, special broadcasts were going on, one group of the team left the equipment room and

prepared for an hour, rested a little. i went there again and this continued for several weeks, it was absolutely exhausting work, but somehow incredible in the sense that it is also important to stipulate that at the present time i do not want to use the cliché of a unique journalistic team, but it is truly unique in the sense that i do not know of other editorial offices where so many people from different countries, from ukraine, russia and belarus, would work together, at some point i caught myself thinking that right now we are the best in the world in what... what we do, of course, the most memorable was february 24, 2022, we are the morning program, we are the ones who go out first, and then i was supposed to host that broadcast, as we entered the usual shift, as usual, at 9:00 am prague time, we were supposed to go on air, then these multi-hour daily marathons began, when you basically go on air, you don’t have any script,

they have to come, they too, now they are negotiating, negotiating, negotiating, our guest producers, and you pick up with each new topic, you watch these universes live, i realized that i personally for myself my own task, now i explain journalistic as literally documenting this process, and i would like to believe that if someone ever decides to record this, and this may help someone for some...

and what he doesn't understand, uncle, that by throwing rockets here, people die here, i say, i don't know, i was very scared little, how it flew and fell, people who do not directly participate in military... actions, including those people from the armed forces forces that have laid down their arms, as well as those who are no longer participating in hostilities due to illness, injury, detention or any other reason, must in all circumstances be treated humanely.

donald trump has not ruled out us participation in the iran-israel war. maybe i will, maybe i won’t. nobody knows what i’m going to do. you could have sorted it out, you would have a country. it’s very sad to see. the american media are writing that a decision will be made in the next day or two. russia fears a change of power in tehran.

moscow could lose its second most important ally in the middle east after syria. certainly, in the interests of the russian federation, as i, at least, understand them.