[Regnum] Militants from the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the Kursk region are using captured Russian fighters as human shields, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
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“They are driven ahead of them, having first hung them with ‘suicide belts’ containing explosives that detonate when they try to escape or when they meet with Russian military personnel,” Zakharova’s words are quoted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to Zakharova, the attacks by Ukrainian forces on Belgorod, Berdyansk and the Kursk region testify to the terrorist nature of the actions of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at the plenary session of the 21st annual meeting of the Valdai Forum that the West is using Ukraine as an instrument of struggle against Russia, and turning Ukrainians into cannon fodder. According to the head of state, the opponents of the Russian Federation are finding new instruments and methods to try to get rid of it.
Earlier, military correspondent Marat Khairullin reported that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be able to withdraw its units from the Kursk region, since several “cauldrons” have already formed there.
The real reason for the desire of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command to withdraw troops from the territory of the Kursk region is the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing, but Kiev will try to justify the withdrawal by Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, the military correspondent noted.
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"The Ukrainian Armed Forces will transport the repatriated bodies and remains to designated government institutions. Law enforcement officials and forensic experts will establish the identities of the deceased," the headquarters said in a statement.
It is specified that 320 Ukrainian soldiers died in the Donetsk direction, 89 in the Artemivsk direction, 154 bodies were returned "from morgues on the territory of Russia." At the same time, 37 fallen participants of the special operation were returned to the Russian Federation.
On August 2, Regnum news agency reported that Russia handed over the bodies of 250 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to Ukraine. The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for Prisoners clarified that these were those killed in various directions from the LPR to the Kherson region, as well as in Mariupol.
The Russian and Ukrainian sides regularly exchange bodies of the dead. In May, Russia returned 212 bodies to Ukraine and received the bodies of 45 fighters, in June it transferred another 250 bodies and received 32 bodies of the dead.
On November 2, the Russian Federation Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova called on Ukraine to return to constructive dialogue and speed up prisoner exchanges. According to her, Ukraine has not given its consent to accept servicemen from the 102nd, 126th, and 118th brigades for over a year.