Ukrainian Prisoner Reveals How Recruiters Deceived Him Into Going to Front Lines

NAMPA / Sputnik

2026-01-02

DONETSK, January 2 (RIA Novosti) - Pavel Vovchenko, who escaped from the Ukrainian army and was subsequently captured, told RIA Novosti how he was caught by the territorial center of recruitment and social support (TCR) and tricked into being sent to the front lines. Vovchenko said he had initially joined volunteer fighters in late March 2025 and had spent about a month and a half in a training center in Novomoskovsk (Samar) in the Dnepropetrovsk......

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