Vids show Russian troops surrender in their OWN country as daring Ukraine invasion gathers pace & Putin evacuates towns

VLADIMIR Putin’s troops have been forced to surrender in their own territory after daring Ukrainians stormed two villages in a major breakthrough.

Dramatic footage shows dozens of soldiers allegedly submitting to Ukrainian forces as Russian positions in Nikolayevo-Darino and Oleshnya were raided amid intense cross-border offensive.

Russian prisoners of war held by Ukraineeast2west news

The Russians were held captive after the shock storm into Vlad’s territoryeast2west news

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Dozens of them were seen sitting on the road after giving up weapons[/caption]

Geolocated footage published by Ukraine Map shows dozens of men claimed to be Russians.

Russian prisoners of war are seen in Ukrainian hands in a further humiliation for Putin.

The surrendered soldiers and FSB border guards are shown on video after capture in the Kursk region.

Some reports said Ukraine had detained as many as 300 Russian servicemen in total, and that Kyiv’s forces have penetrated almost 20 miles inside Putin’s country, with fighting around the town of Korenevo.

This contradicts Russian military chief Valery Gerasimov who said that the incursion by 1,000 Ukrainian troops had been halted.

Among those held are Russia’s 225th Assault Brigade, shown in footage with their hands bound, sitting on a road after reportedly giving up their weapons.

Another clip claimed to show captive Russian soldiers walking in a line and escorted by their new Ukrainian guards.

Many more were seen leaving their strongholds as Kyiv’s forces breached their territories deep inside Russia.

A local state of emergency was introduced in Kursk on Wednesday evening – 36 hours after Ukrainian soldiers, tanks and armoured vehicles stormed into the western border region.

Several thousand were evacuated from the area amid Kyiv’s banging offensive, reports claim.

Ukrainians also evacuated some 6,000 people from the Sumy region, just across the border from Kursk.

Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, said some 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been involved in the attack – and it was led by Kyiv’s 22nd mechanised brigade.

Ukrainian humvees, armoured personal carriers, and hundreds of soldiers smashed their way across the border into the Kursk region of Russia on Tuesday.

One blog claimed Ukrainian troops had reached 15km inside the country as Putin struggled to contain the unprecedented incursion.

Ukraine’s objectives have not been spelled out but the Russians fear an aim could be to reach Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, a major Russian strategic asset.

Thousands of Russians are evacuating the region amid complaints that Putin’s armed and security forces have failed to protect them.

The town of Sudzha is under partial Ukrainian control and almost ringed by its forces.

A close Putin crony, ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, today lashed out at Ukraine for the incursion – which shocked Moscow – and demanded Russia respond by crushing Ukraine.

It was now “necessary” to “mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy”, and stage a total invasion, he said.

“From now on, the (war) must acquire an openly extraterritorial character.

“This is no longer just an operation to return our official territories and punish the (Ukrainian) Nazis.

“We can and must go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine. To Odesa, to Kharkiv, to Dnipro, to Mykolaiv (all cities now held by Ukraine).

“There should be no restrictions in the sense of some borders of the Ukrainian Reich recognised by anyone.

Drone footage showing captive Russian soldiers near Russia’s Kursk region

Russian drone footage showed Ukrainian troops and tanks inside the country

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Russian soldiers were caught on drone camera being led away as prisoners[/caption]

“And now we can and must talk about this openly, without embarrassment.

“Let everyone, including the English b*******, realise this: we will stop only when we consider it acceptable and beneficial for ourselves.”

Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, claimed that Ukrainian forces stormed into the Sudzha and Korenevo districts of Kursk Oblast.

Telegram channels with links to Russia’s Defence Ministry said Ukrainian forces captured the villages of Nikolaevo-Darino, Sverdlikovo and Oleshnya – and have secured strong footholds in these border areas.

The farthest village claimed to have been captured is some four kilometres inside Russia from the international border.

Other reports claim Ukrainian troops have also advanced into Gogolevka and Goncharovka inside Russia.

Ukraine has yet to comment on these major advances.

The Russian military said Ukraine had sent multiple tanks and armoured combat vehicles across the northeastern border on August 6 in a “massive attack”.

It’s the same region Ukraine-supporting rebels stormed in a two-pronged assault in March.

Former Russian president, now deputy head of the Kremlin’s security council, Dmitry Medvedev

He’s demanded the Russians should now take all Ukrainian territory as revenge

Unverified footage showing Ukrainian armed forces firing a rocket from inside Russia

Chechen war lord Ramzan Kadyrov (left) with Russian Major-General Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat [Chechen] special forces

Fighting is focused on small villages across the lightly guarded frontier, with Russia said to be evacuating civilians.

Footage posted of the attacks on social media showed fighter jets screaming low over a highway, destroyed Russian helicopters, and burnt-out trucks.

The valiant eastern European nation also destroyed two Russian attack helicopters yesterday, a Ka-52 “Alligator” and a Mi-28 “Havoc” downed by an FPV drone.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed at first the attack had been repelled in a statement on Telegram, only for it to later scrub the line.

Moscow, which daily bombards Ukrainian civilians and territory, raged against a “terrorist attack”. 

A humiliated Putin blasted the attack on the Kursk region as a “major provocation”.

The Russian Army released footage of strikes on the advancing Ukrainian vehicles, including the destruction of a surface-to-air missile system inside Ukraine.

The latest cross-border offence is being seen as Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian territory in months. 

Russia is pouring in reinforcements, but so is Ukraine.

It is already known that Ukraine is in control of the key Sudzha gas metering station, which is used as a gas transit to Europe through Ukraine.

Russia has sent a general to the new war zone in Kursk region – Major-General Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat (Chechen) special forces – who vowed to fight back and defeat the Ukrainians.

He said: “The enemy has entered the border territories.

“Several settlements are occupied by the enemy.

“He is trying to advance as much as possible, building up all his forces, which he has moved from the Belarusian border.”

Ukraine was “throwing everything” at the incursion.

The commander added: “God willing, this issue will be resolved, these forces will be destroyed.

“The (war) this year will end with Russia’s victory. Those who believe in God do not doubt it, as I do not doubt it.

“The enemy who will be watching us now: Hello to him, because I think these days are his last in his life.”

A pregnant Russian woman Nina Kuznetsova, 28, was killed as she and her husband, their young child and her mother sought to flee Sudzha in two cars.
 

Her husband said: “I heard shots, bangs… It turned out that they were shooting at me.

“I managed to drive past, but my wife didn’t.

“I stopped, she crashed into me. I opened the door, and Nina was already wheezing.

“We went to the hospital. They tried to revive her, but it didn’t work. The bullet entered the lung and exited through the heart.”

Widespread reports of the death of well-known Russian state-controlled propaganda TV war reporter Yevgeny Poddubny in Kursk region proved false after a drone strike by the Ukrainians.

He is in a “serious condition” with burns as well as head and facial wounds.

Footage showed the reporter being stretched to hospital.
He is today to be transported to Moscow for treatment.

Wife and mother Nina Kuznetsova, 28, was killed amid the anarchy

Former deputy prime minister Senator Dmitry Rogozin warned that the Ukrainian target is the takeover of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

Dashcam footage caught fighter jets flying over a motorway

A house was bombed in the Ukrainian advance

Ukraine could be trying to take the Kursk nuclear power plant for ‘nuclear blackmail’