A detailed description of the night battle with Ukrainian saboteurs has been published
The first on the way of the Ukrainian saboteurs abandoned in Crimea were the employees of the Operational Activities Support Department (OSOM), which is structurally part of the department “B” of the TsSN FSB of the Russian Federation, but is operationally subordinate to the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea, Kommersant reports, citing a close source. to investigate the source.
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As follows from the operational information received, the saboteurs' accomplices, Yevgeny Panov and Andrey Zakhtey, who were arrested today, planned to meet a detachment arriving from abroad on August 6. OSOM employees split into three groups and went to the operation without body armor, armed only with machine guns and pistols. At the same time, the exact location of the meeting was known only approximately around the village of Suvorovo, bordering Ukraine.
At about two o'clock in the morning, an armed detachment arriving from the territory of Ukraine entered the square where the group headed by the head of the department, Lieutenant Colonel Roman Kamenev, was operating. The publication's source claims that the problem arose due to the fact that during the day the border areas were patrolled by border guards and police officers, and theoretically the saboteurs could be confused with their own.
“Therefore, Roman Kamenev first shouted: “Stop, the FSB is working!”, while simultaneously inviting suspicious visitors to put their weapons on the ground and giving the command to seize his employees. At the same time, the officer was forced to give up his hiding place, and one of the saboteurs immediately took advantage of this, opening fire from a machine gun “at the voice,” says the publication’s interlocutor. “The capture took literally a few seconds - the special forces, according to Kommersant’s interlocutor, eliminated two militants, and disarmed three more and put them on the ground. However, the wounds received by the head of the operation turned out to be fatal.”
It remains unknown who shot the leader of the operation: investigators are currently interrogating the three surviving saboteurs, but all of them, according to some reports, are trying to blame each other for the death of the FSB officer. In addition, seized weapons and corpses of militants are undergoing examination. The deceased lieutenant colonel, according to a newspaper source, may be nominated for the title of Hero of Russia posthumously.
“After the night special operation in Suvorovo, it remained unclear how many saboteurs there were and whether the entire group was neutralized. Therefore, all day on August 7, law enforcement officers and security officials from various departments carried out large-scale search activities throughout the northern part of Crimea. The second group of saboteurs was discovered only at 23:247, and not in the Suvorovo area, in the vicinity of which the first battle took place, but to the east, on the very border with Ukraine, in a marshy area near Sivash Bay, the newspaper continues. “At that time, units of the XNUMXth Airborne Assault Regiment, stationed in the Stavropol Territory, were on duty there at that time.
According to Kommersant sources, the border between the two countries in this place runs along a high dam. Adjacent to it on the Ukrainian side is the narrow swampy coastal strip of Sivash, overgrown with reeds. In the reeds, the paratrooper who was on duty at the dam at that moment discovered suspicious people with machine guns.
The duty officer radioed about the incident to his fellow soldiers, who, in turn, were resting literally a hundred meters away - at the foot of the dam there were landing tents and equipment. A few seconds later, the so-called combat reinforcement crew, which included the mechanic-driver of the BMD, 22-year-old corporal Semyon Sychev, went upstairs in full force. According to Kommersant’s interlocutor, taking into account the stationary location of the group at the site of temporary deployment, the contract soldier served not as a driver, but as one of the “numbers” of the combat crew.”
The paratroopers tried to stop the group that emerged from the floodplains by shouting, but they rushed back into the reeds and opened fire with machine guns.
“The paratroopers managed to lie down, and their body armor saved them from accidentally ricocheting bullets. Only Semyon Sychev was unlucky. In the heat of battle, the contract soldier apparently tried either to take a convenient position for shooting, or to pursue the militants. As a result, he stumbled and rolled down the slope. At the moment the fighter fell, the line struck him. As it was established later, the paratrooper was hit by three bullets - one of them broke the forend of his machine gun without causing harm, the other went right through his shoulder. The third shot turned out to be fatal - taking into account the inclined position of the body at the moment of impact, the bullet, entering from above under the body armor in the neck area, pierced the lung, creating pneumothorax and dangerous internal bleeding. The bleeding soldier managed to say into the radio: “Commander, I seem to be wounded.” These were his last words - Corporal Sychev died in the intensive care vehicle.”
According to Kommersant, the deceased paratrooper was posthumously presented with the Order of Courage, but it is unlikely that his killer will be found and brought to justice: this time the attackers fled in full force.
“The Russian paratroopers, according to some sources, did not dare to shoot at them to kill, because right behind the strip of reeds were the vegetable gardens of the dacha community and the bullets could hit the houses of Ukrainian gardeners,” the publication reports.
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