Interview with captured Russian PMC member from Redut
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Please identify yourself. My name is Tkachenko Alexei Ivanovich
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Born June 4, 1945. Where are you from?
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You worked as a security guard at Gazprom.
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Who are you now?
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I'm currently under contract to Redoute PMC.
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The Redut PMC. How did you get in there?
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I got it from Gazprom. Gazprom has created a newspaper stream
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The stream was passed on to PMC Redut.
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Where did you train?
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On the range. On the range three walks two guns
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What other divisions has Gazprom created?
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Fahel and ...
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The flame.
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Those units, where were they transferred to?
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No, they gave it to the Ministry of Defence.
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We were the only ones who were transferred to Reduto.
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So Gazprom has created three divisions.
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The torch, the flame, the flow.
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Two units, the torch and the flame, were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
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And only your stream was transferred to Redoute.
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Tell me about your last fight.
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In their last battle, they began to fire mortars.
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You were in position?
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I was in position. The mortar fire has started
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I was hurt.
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We 've requested an evacuation . I was tied up
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Waiting for the evac. I was told I needed to be evacuated
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At 7 p.m. the evacuation began.
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Two down.
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They left me in the field until they drained me.
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They said we'd turn around and come back.
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They're gone.
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So no one else follows me. I'm all alone
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Four days crawling alone in the woods.
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I was looking for a way out.
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And now I'm here.
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The Ukrainian positions?
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The Ukrainian positions, yes.
A captured Russian PMC member from Redut, a private military company of Gazprom, shares his experience and how he crawled to Ukrainian positions after being left wounded on the field by his colleagues.
This video in Russian was translated to English, Русский on April 25, 2023, using Targum.video AI translation service.
