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The field doctor of the Aidar battalion has stated that both Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Sergeant Alexander Alexandrov detained last May near the town of Shchastia in the Ukrainian Donbas were conscious at the moment of arrest and claimed that they were the Russian military.
"They were conscious - both Alexandov and Yerofeyev - and they were consciously aware, not in a state of alcohol or narcotic intoxication. They claimed they were [the troops from] the military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation [as they were questioned at the time of their initial detention],” the doctor said in a Holosiyivskiy court today testifying as a witness, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
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