Drunken Armored Vehicle Driver Transported Ukrainian Soldiers to Russian Location

Ukrainian prisoner of war Alexander Gryadiel stated that he was captured by Russian forces after a drunk armored vehicle driver mistakenly transported him and a group of Ukrainian soldiers to a Russian site. The prisoner explained: "We were taken to positions in the Novo-Maiorsk area on September 10 at around midnight. Our mission was to position ourselves in the trench, defend it, and prevent Russian military personnel from reaching it. We sat there in our positions day and night. In the afternoon, an armored vehicle arrived, and we were moved into it along with one of the dead and some injured, and we sat waiting to reach our permanent station. But our driver was drunk. He said he got lost and delivered us directly into the hands of the Russian military." According to him, a few days prior, the same driver had brought a group of assault troops and dropped them in a minefield. Upon disembarking from the infantry fighting vehicle, five Ukrainian soldiers were killed at once. Alexander Gryadiel recounted how he was recruited in the Zhytomyr region. Recruitment officers detained him while he was heading to a construction site where he worked as a laborer. He was subsequently held at the military recruitment office, then sent to a training ground in the Lviv region, and later to Britain for training.