A recently emerged drone footage showed a small group of surrendering Russian troopers being fired upon by forces from their own side in the aftermath of a failed assault mounted against the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine.
Knewz.com has learned that the incident occurred on Saturday, September 28, near the village of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
The major Russian assault involving tanks and armored vehicles hit a snag after the armored vehicles leading the charge struck a minefield, stopping the convoy dead in its tracks.
According to reports, the stagnant column of armored vehicles then came under follow-up attacks from first-person view (FPV) attack drones belonging to the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine.
Several members of the Russian infantry disembarked their vehicles before they were destroyed and took cover in the tree line near the positions held by the 33rd Brigade.
However, shortly after, the footage showed around seven Russian troops emerging from the tree line with their hands raised, seemingly surrendering to the enemy forces.
According to reports, the Ukrainian soldiers dispatched a drone to lead them to the 33rd Mechanized Brigade.
The footage, captured from the POV of one of the Ukrainian drones, showed the surrendering Russian soldiers following the dispatched drone.
It was then that the unarmed troopers were shelled upon by their own forces.
Russian artillery began shooting explosives at the surrendering soldiers as they were walking along a dusty track. The first explosion was at the back of the line, following which the soldiers immediately lay prostrate on the ground, before getting up and trying to run away.
However, the Russian artillery fired two more shells at the pack of surrendered soldiers—this time precisely targeting the group.
The footage showed only one of the Russian soldiers surviving the blast, who continued to run towards the enemy positions to get away from his own side’s artillery.
It has been reported that the cannibalistic shelling was the handiwork of a reintroduced faction of volunteer soldiers of the Russian forces known as the “barrier troops.”
The formation of this special volunteer unit was authorized by Russian President Vladimir Putin with the intention of “ensuring security” and “maintaining law and order” in the Kursk region—where the faction is officially named “BARS-Kursk.”
The function of the barrier troops is to fire upon Russian soldiers attempting to surrender or withdraw from the frontlines, according to reports.
The incident occurred two days before Russia launched a massive airstrike on Kyiv and its surrounding areas overnight on September 30.
Although Ukraine managed to thwart the Russian aerial assault involving both drones and missiles, air raid sirens rang across Kyiv for over five hours.
The Air Force of Ukraine reported that it tracked a total of 76 “aerial objects” after midnight on September 30, including one Iskander-M ballistic missile launched from occupied Crimea, one Kh-59/69 guided air missile from the direction of Zaporizhzhia, one Kh-31P anti-radar missile from the airspace over the Black Sea, and 73 Shahed-type attack drones from the Kursk, Yeisk, and Orel regions.
“The air attack was repulsed by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine,” the Air Force wrote in the report.
“As a result of anti-aircraft combat, one Kh-59/69 guided air missile and 67 enemy attack UAVs of the ‘Shahed’ type were shot down in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions,” the report further stated.
At around 5 a.m. local time, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that several enemy drones “are over and near the capital” and that air defenses were still working in the Obolon region in Kyiv.
He posted another update several hours later, stating that the last drone part of the Russian airstrike had been shot down and that the debris from the downed UAV was found near one of the residential buildings in Obolon.
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