By KYIV. May 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Some 3,200 Russian soldiers expressed a desire to surrender in April 2023, which is 10% more than a month earlier, said spokesperson of the state project of the surrender of Russian and Belarusian military “I want to live” Vitaliy Matviyenko.
As Matviyenko said at a press conference at the Military Media Center, during the existence of the project, more than 16,000 appeals were received, more than 36 million visitors visited the website, 32 million of them from the territory of the Russian Federation.
According to the results of a sociological study of Russian prisoners of war presented at the press conference, 40% of respondents noted that they surrendered voluntarily.
Representative of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War Andriy Yusov, presenting the research data, noted that 55% of Russian prisoners of war are not satisfied with the provision of ammunition in their army.
According to the survey, 26% of prisoners of war said that they absolutely do not like the provision of ammunition in the Russian army. Some 29.2% of respondents said that they do not like the supply of weapons.
Only 7.1% of respondents said that they really like the provision, another 10.4% replied that they were satisfied with the ammunition received. Some 27.3% of respondents expressed a neutral attitude to the provision of ammunition.
The first sociological study of Russian prisoners of war conducted by the Coordination Headquarters within the framework of the I Want to Live project was conducted in April 2023. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire, 400 prisoners of war agreed to fill out the questionnaires on a voluntary basis.
The state project I Want to Live was launched in September 2022 and is designed to help Russian army servicemen safely surrender to the AFU. It includes a Single center (website) and a round-the-clock hotline for receiving appeals from the Russian military and their families.
