Anti-Putin Russians Capture 25 Moscow Soldiers Inside Belgorod Oblast

The Anti-Putin Russian units allied with Ukraine remain across the Russian border inside Belgorod and Kursk Oblasts and have now taken 25 Russian soldiers prisoners. 

The captured Russian POWs appear to be reinforcements sent to mine the roads around the Ukrainian allies' incursion in order to prevent them from advancing further and taking more territory. They seem to have not been given accurate intelligence about how far the invading Ukrainian allies had penetrated, leading to their capture. JL 

Militarnyi reports:

In Belgorod Oblast, soldiers of the Russian Volunteer Corps resistance captured 25 servicemen and a senior lieutenant who had been the commander of the engineering company of the military unit 54708. While mining the territory, his car came under fire. The Russian senior lieutenant said everyone who was with him had died during the task. The Russian Volunteer Corps soldiers also showed the interrogation of the captured officer.

In the Belgorod Oblast, soldiers of the Russian resistance captured 25 servicemen with an officer of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Russian Volunteer Corps, said that a senior lieutenant had been captured by them.

The soldiers also showed the interrogation of the captured officer, who said that he had been the commander in the engineering company of the military unit 54708.

 

According to the prisoner, during the task of mining the territory, his car came under fire from the RVC.

Russian senior lieutenant Aleksey added that everyone who was with him had died during the task.

 

“I was the only one alive, and I was taken prisoner,” the Russian military said.

In addition to the officer, the Russian Volunteer Corps showed more than two dozen prisoners who were placed in three cars.

 

The commander of the RVC, Denis Kapustin, noted that the statements of the Russian authorities about the loss of Russian resistance members are not true.

“All statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation about the full destruction of the RVC forces are another lie. A limited military operation in the Belgorod and Kursk Oblast continues and here is confirmation – a new batch of captured military of the Russian Armed Forces,” said Denis Kapustin.

Captured Russian soldiers who were captured by Russian resistance members in the Belgorod region. March 2024. Russia. Frame from the video of the Russian Volunteer Corps

As previously reported, on March 12, an information appeared that Russian volunteers on the side of Ukraine began a joint operation in the Belgorod and Kursk Oblast.

In the formation, the Freedom of Russia Legion said they had been coming to “free Russians from poverty and fear.” The Sibir Battalion reported that “they began to fulfill the promise to overthrow the criminal dictatorial regime in the Russian Federation with weapons in hand.”

Soldier of the Freedom of Russia Legion. March 2024

On March 14, the Russian resistance called on residents of the Kursk and Belgorod Oblast of Russia to urgently evacuate in connection with a limited military operation.