Commenting on the current situation at the front, Nikolai noted that there is one good news: “People still have the morale to continue.” To a clarifying question, “how long will we last,” he answered: “I don’t know, but if I’m talking about our division, then with security for a while yet”.
According to him, Ukraine did not lose the war because its capital was not occupied, and the Russians achieved relatively little success on the front.
“We definitely have not lost the war. This will happen when the Russians enter Kiev and occupy it, when they are near Lviv and advance on the front. Therefore, in any case, we are not lost. Yes, in places on the front they are moving forward “but it doesn’t matter – they haven’t captured big cities anyway”, explained the fighter from “Azov”.
“Frost” also remembers the battles for “Azovstal” and his subsequent capture.
“When I was told, at one point it all sunk in, and after all we had repulsed the assault. I thought we could hold out for another month or two. But the Russians demolished the factory. There was an acute problem with fortifications and food.”
Frost now believes that the decision to surrender was the right one. Four months later, he was released, but some of the defenders of Mariupol are still in Russia. Most of them are unlikely to agree that the order for captivity was correct, he adds.
“Knowing what happened to the guys who got out even after a year, even they say: I’d rather make my way through the fields and forests, trying to get out somehow, than to be in captivity… Believe me, there already not many people and I know of suicide attempts and I’m sure some have already succeeded. If I had to go to some Taganrog or another, I would have done the same. I was just among those 200 or so lucky ones who were released four months later – late,” commented the fighter.
