The Ukrainian military intelligence project I Want to Live has published several recordings purporting to show Russian soldiers who were taken prisoner during the fighting in Kursk Oblast. I Want to Live claims that among the prisoners are soldiers from the 488th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian Army and the Chechen unit Akhmat.
Special forces of the Security Service Ukraine captured 102 soldiers of the Russian 488th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment and the Chechen Akhmat unit in the Kursk region, the Kiev military intelligence project “I Want to Live” addressed to Russian soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine and would like to surrender to the Ukrainian side reported on Thursday.
A shot from a recording provided by the “I Want to Live” project “I want to live”/Facebook
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They made the “right decision”
A little earlier on Thursday, “I Want to Live” published another recording, also supposedly showing Russian prisoners lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs, taken prisoner in the border region. “Yesterday (Wednesday – ed.) more than a hundred Russians, abandoned by their commanders, made the right decision and surrendered. You can understand them, it is difficult to conduct warfare when the commanders are autocrats and embezzlers, and the flanks are 'covered' by Kadyrov's men, who abandon everyone and everything so as not to be taken prisoner,” the project reported.
On Sunday, a video appeared on the social media of the Ukrainian military intelligence project, allegedly showing Chechen special forces soldiers captured in the rear, who – as I Want to Live reported – “did not even try to resist.”
In turn, the Ukrayinska Pravda portal, publishing photos of captured Russian servicemen provided by an interlocutor from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), reported that the SBU special unit “captured a concrete and well-fortified stronghold of Russian forces” in the Kursk region.
They guarded the state border
Reports of Russian soldiers being taken prisoner began to appear the first day of the offensive of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. First, there was information about prisoners among the conscripts who guarded the state border – recalled the independent Russian portal Meduza.
On Tuesday, the president Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had captured “hundreds of Russian soldiers” in the Kursk region.
Fighting in Kursk Oblast in Russia PAP
tvn24.pl, Meduza, Ukrainian Truth
Main image source: “I want to live”/Facebook