Video showing the interrogation of the preciously captured Russian recon contract soldier. Is anyone native able to give a general translation? Does it seem genuine?
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In the first part they're asking him for what branch, unit, etc he's from. He seems to not know what the fuck they want him to say, despite them asking pretty benign questions (what brigade are you from? what country's military? etc). Might be shock, might be something else. IDK.
They ask him where he was born, he says "Siberia". I'm not sure anyone would say that vs the actual, you know, city or town, but maybe he was born in a hut in the middle of the Siberian tundra.
I couldn't catch his name. They ask him where he lives, he says Kemerovo Oblast, in the town of Yugra. This would match up to his claim of being from the 74th Guards Motor Rifles, as they're based in Yugra. They ask him when he arrived in Ukraine, he says "today". They ask him when they (the 74th Guards) arrived on the border, and he can't understand what they want him to say.
They ask him who the commanders told them they would be fighting when they deployed for the op. He says "with Ukrainians". They ask "why", he says he doesn't know and wasn't told.
He says he's been a contract soldier since 2006 (not a conscript, though his age would have told you that anyway). He says that zampolits (political officers) didn't do any work to explain to the troops why they'd be moving into Ukraine.
When asked about how many battalions the 74th Guards has, he says 3. The armor consists of mostly BMP-2's, with T-72's. He doesn't know where their commander is now. He says they entered from Belarus.
That's it. IDK how factual this interrogation is. If it is a psyop, I'm not sure what it would prove or disprove or what use it would be as such.
