SBU showed summer video with captured Russian tank crews
Moscow - Kyiv, March 19 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Security Service of Ukraine announced at a briefing in Kyiv video, filmed by the Ukrainian military in August last year. The recording shows allegedly Russian military personnel who were captured by surrounded fighters of the Donbass battalion near Ilovaisk, reports RBC.
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“In the video, a Russian tank crew was captured by Ukrainian fighters,” the SBU said in a statement. According to the head of the main investigation department of the SBU, Vasily Vovk, Russian military personnel - two tank crews and two paratroopers - spoke about their participation on the side of the militia.
On camera, the servicemen say their names and numbers of the units where they serve: the 6th separate tank brigade of the Western Military District of military unit 54096 and the 31st air assault brigade of military unit 73612.
According to Vovk, Donbass fighters captured a tank crew when they were leaving the encirclement. Subsequently, the Ukrainian military themselves were taken hostage and provided the video to the SBU only after leaving captivity.
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