Ukraine's Security Service captures over 100 Russian troops in Kursk region: Details

Security Service of Ukraine's special forces captured 102 Russian servicemen in the Kursk region. This is the most massive capture of the Russian troops that has ever been carried out in one go.

The special operation was carried out by the soldiers of the Security Service of Ukraine's Central Special Operations Centre A.

"They captured and cleared an extensive, concrete, and well-fortified company stronghold with underground communications and accommodation for personnel, a canteen, armory, and even a bathhouse. Russian troops were not going to surrender, they had more than enough provisions and ammunition," the sources say.

The Security Service Ukraine officers captured 102 servicemen of the 488th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces and the Akhmat unit (a special forces unit stationed in Chechnya).

Background

The I Want to Live project reported that Ukrainian defenders managed to capture a company of Russian soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia. According to I Want to Live, this happened yesterday, August 14.

Over 100 Russian soldiers surrendered.

Situation in Kursk region

The Ukrainian Defense Forces have been conducting an operation in the Kursk region for more than a week. Recently, the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, reported that Ukraine controls 74 settlements in the Kursk region and that Ukrainian soldiers have advanced by 40 square kilometers.

Syrskyi said that the Defense Forces of Ukraine had managed to capture about 100 Russian soldiers since the start of the day on August 14

Ukraine has created a buffer zone in the Kursk region and plans to open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians. They will work both in the direction of Russia and Ukraine.