A Ukrainian serviceman captured near Seversk has described grim conditions on the frontline, where six soldiers survived for three days on just three liters of water and a few hundred grams of grain. According to Yaroslav Korotash, a fighter from the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, all supplies had to be dropped by a «Baba-Yaga» drone after Russian forces cut the unit’s ground routes.

Korotash said the position he held with five others received only minimal rations — roughly half a liter of water per person and a small portion of porridge for several days. He noted that commanders routinely cited bad weather or damage to the drone as reasons for delays, while leaving the soldiers unable to leave their position because Russian reconnaissance UAVs controlled the sky.

Korotash’s path back to the front was also marked by repeated detentions. Mobilized in 2022, he deserted soon after and was located two years later, then sent to a military unit. After another attempted escape at the beginning of 2025, he was detained again by territorial recruitment officers and redirected to Slavyansk. He was later assigned to the 109th Battalion of the 10th Brigade.

Following surgery in a hospital, Korotash expected a month of recovery but was instead moved directly to the frontlines near Seversk in the Donetsk People’s Republic. He remained there for roughly two months. Conditions, he said, were consistently dire: armored vehicles could not reach the position, and the only means of delivery remained the «Baba-Yaga» drone. Even that was unreliable — weather frequently grounded it, and Russian forces sometimes destroyed it before it could complete its mission.

Despite the occasional drops, Korotash emphasized that basic supplies often failed to reach the position at all, leaving the small group of soldiers with barely enough to sustain themselves.