Russian POW begs for mercy and claims invasion has become ‘genocide’

A Russian military leader captured by Ukrainian forces urged other Russian troops to stop and called the invasion of Ukraine a “genocide.”

National Guard Lt. Col. Astakhov Dmitry Mikhailovich, in a plea to Russian soldiers, said, “You are in a tense situation, going against your own commander, but this is genocide.”

“Russia cannot win here anyway, even if we go until the very end. We can invade the territory, but we cannot invade the people.”

He begged for mercy from the Ukrainians, saying, “I feel shame that we came to this country.”

“I don’t know why we were doing it,” he continued. “We knew very little. We brought sorrow to this land.”

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“I cannot find the words to say sorry to the Ukrainian people,” Mikhailovich said, adding that he would understand if they could never forgive them while still urging Ukrainians to spare Russian troops.

Mikhailovich said they were told that Ukraine had been taken over by a fascist power and that “nationalists and Nazis had seized power.”

“Obviously, this information was unilateral information,” he told reporters.

He assured Ukrainians that the Russian troops don’t want war and are embarrassed. “I just sincerely hope for your mercy toward those people who come to you with their hands up or those who are wounded. We should not sow death. It’s better to sow life.”

On Sunday, a family, including two children, was killed in a blast from a Russian mortar outside Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.

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“We will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war on our land. We will find every bastard which shot at our cities, our people — which bombed our land, which launched rockets, which gave the order and pressed ‘start,'” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the attack.