Vladimir Putin’s troops were forced to drop to their knees as Ukraine’s massive incursion into Russia continued for a sixth day.
The moment Ukrainian soldiers made their Russian enemies surrender “en masse” with their hands behind their heads was caught on camera.
It comes as their surprise attack on the Kursk region enters its sixth day.
The footage appears to show a Ukrainian soldier standing over three rows of Russians huddled together, on their knees, in a field.
The captives were made to say “Glory to Ukraine” to the soldier who had a gun.
In another clip, nine FSB security service officers were seen walking together in a line as they gave themselves up to Ukrainian troops. Some of the officers waved white flags with others holding up their hands.
Vladimir Osechkin, founder of Gulagu.net anti-torture human rights group, said: “Dozens of Russian servicemen, including a whole number of FSB staff have surrendered to Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“There is shock among the Federal Security Service members, because it is one thing when the war is somewhere far away, and another when your FSB colleagues are captured and forced to lie face down, and taken away to become a part of an exchange fund.
“I even saw how several members of FSB wrote: ‘Don’t call these men FSB, they are only border guards’.”
The Russian defence ministry said it was “continuing to repel” Ukraine’s military, which it claimed had lost more than 280 personnel in the past 24 hours on Friday.
But Ukraine’s military – Defense of Ukraine – said yesterday that it had wiped out 1,160 Russian troops in the deepest cross-border advance by Kyiv since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
It added another 1220 to that total in a tweet today shared to social media platform X.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday, August 8 that Moscow must “feel” the consequences of its invasion.
There have been 590,920 Russian soldiers killed at the hands of the Ukraine so far according to the Defense of Ukraine. These numbers are unconfirmed and Russia does not release up-to-date casualty figures.
An authority on the war – the Institute for the Study of War – also offered clarity on Ukraine’s location inside Russia, also on X.
Its tweet said: “Geolocated footage published on August 9 indicates that Ukrainian forces were recently operating west of Sudzha, within the settlement, north of Sudzha near Kazachya Loknya, and northeast of Leonidovo and in Dmitriukov.”
Images shared on social media show carnage with dozens of bodies and burned-out trucks purportedly in the Kursk region.
