Ukrainian officials parade captured Russian soldiers, videos show

Ukrainian forces detain servicemen of the self-proclaimed Lugansk Individuals's Republic.
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Ukrainian officers have been posting dozens of movies and photographs on-line parading captured bloodied Russian troopers, together with some fighters who claimed they didn’t know they had been being despatched to invade.

Footage posted on the Ukrainian Safety Service’s Fb web page over the weekend confirmed a number of Russian troopers insisting they thought they had been solely participating in army workouts earlier than they had been pressured over their nation’s border into Ukraine final week.

Different movies included a number of of the Russians calling their kinfolk to tell them that they had been detained.

Numerous the captured Russian troopers had been injured, together with some filmed mendacity in hospital beds as they spoke.

A number of the movies had been additionally posted to the Telegram channel “Discover Your Personal,” which was arrange over the weekend by Ukraine’s inside ministry.

Dozens of Russian troopers have surrendered to the armed forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv.

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Numerous the captured Russian troopers had been injured.

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A number of Russian troopers insisted they thought they had been solely participating in army workouts earlier than they had been pressured over their nation’s border.

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Some fighters claimed they didn’t know they had been being despatched to invade.

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A kind of movies confirmed an injured commander of a sniper unit who recognized himself as Leonid Paktishev, the Guardian reported.

Paktishev’s shocked kinfolk advised the outlet they didn’t even know he was preventing in Ukraine till they noticed the footage of him.

“I used to be despatched the video of my brother captured at 2 a.m. final night time,” mentioned his sister, Yelena Polivtseva. “I used to be fully shocked. I had no concept that he was preventing in there.

Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

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Ukrainian service members search for and gather unexploded shells after preventing with a Russian raiding group, February 26, 2022.

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A soldier’s physique lies subsequent to a burned Russian APC after the Ukrainian military attacked it the day past close to town of Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022

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“I knew Leonid was within the army, however I had no concept that he was despatched to Ukraine,” she mentioned. “I don’t suppose he would have been conscious of it, both.”

Ukraine has been pushing kinfolk of the captured Russian troopers to succeed in out to them and voice opposition to the warfare.

Moscow on Monday refused to reveal what number of Russian troopers had been killed — or captured — since President Vladimir Putin gave the orders to invade Ukraine.

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The United Nations mentioned no less than 102 civilians had died within the first 4 days of preventing.

Ukrainian forces detain servicemen who had been captured through the morning assault in town of Schast’ye, close to the jap Ukraine metropolis of Lugansk, on February 24, 2022.

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Troopers of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade captured two Russian occupiers.

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Certainly one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s advisers mentioned about 3,500 Russian troopers had been killed or injured up to now.

The United Nations mentioned no less than 102 civilians had died and lots of had been wounded within the first 4 days of preventing.