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Fighting in the area of the city of Slavyansk as part of the ongoing armed conflict.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter, ethnic Sudanese, Daniel Zharkov, who surrendered near Slavyansk, described the work of the Russian Armed Forces against the Ukrainian military with the phrase “they were a normal nightmare.”
“The Russian armed forces began to hold us normally in one position and then knock us out of this trench line... They were normally a nightmare, probably until the night,” the prisoner said in a video provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Zharkov added that soon three grenades flew into the stronghold where he was with his comrades.
“When the third grenade landed, I heard that they were offering to surrender. Well, we surrendered,” he said.

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