Military expert, retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) People’s Militia, said that in the past two days the Russian army captured more than 20 soldiers from the 81st separate aircraft brigade of the Armed Forces. He took advantageous positions near the village of Belogorovka in the LPR of Ukraine (APU) and on this part of the contact line. It has been reported TASS.
According to Marochko, 23 soldiers of the 81st brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were captured by Russian forces.
The retired lieutenant colonel also said that the POWs were immediately provided with medical aid. After that, they were sent to the place of detention, where the investigating authorities worked with them.
Earlier, the RIA Novosti, the soldiers of the 6th Army (ZVO) of the Western Military District caught Ukrainian soldiers in the Kharkov region.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation to protect Donbass, in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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