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2025-04-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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[Regnum] The Ukrainian military, located in the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the Kursk region, broadcast negotiations in English and Spanish. This was reported on April 22 by an informed source in the security forces.

“Periodically, radio conversations were heard in English and Spanish, but the bodies of the killed mercenaries have not yet been found,” a TASS source said.

The agency's source suggested that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are following previous orders from their command and are burning or disfiguring as much as possible the bodies of killed foreign mercenaries.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on April 22, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of the St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in Gornal. Ukrainian militants installed artillery installations and UAV control points on the territory of the monastery. Also, enemy personnel were stationed in the historical buildings.

It was reported that, amid heavy losses, individual groups of the elite 82nd separate airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to escape from the monastery grounds. According to Russian fighters, foreign mercenaries, including Cubans and Colombians, were among those occupying the monastery.

On April 19, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Valery Gerasimov, reported to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin that the Russian army was finishing clearing the territory of the monastery in the village of Gornal. Gerasimov reported that the Russian Armed Forces had already liberated 99.5% of the Kursk region, about 1.26 thousand square kilometers.

On April 22, the Ministry of Defense reported that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 160 people and several pieces of equipment, including a tank and an anti-aircraft missile system, in the Kursk region. The enemy's total losses during the military operations in the region exceed 75 thousand people.

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Russian Ministry of Defense showed a video of the battle for the monastery in Gornal
On April 22, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of the liberation of the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the Kursk region from the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The video shows the combat work of Russian servicemen of the "North" group of troops. It is noted that Ukrainian fighters installed artillery installations and UAV control points on the territory of the monastery. Also, personnel of Ukrainian formations were stationed in the historical buildings.

The St. Nicholas Monastery in the village of Gornal, Sudzhansky District, was founded in 1671. Since August 2024, it has been under constant shelling by Ukrainian forces.

Later, an informed source in the security forces reported that the Ukrainian military, located in the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery, were broadcasting radio conversations in English and Spanish. He also suggested that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were following previous orders from their command and were burning or disfiguring as much as possible the bodies of killed foreign mercenaries.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 19, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Valery Gerasimov, reported to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin that the Russian army was finishing clearing the territory of the monastery in the village of Gornal. Gerasimov reported that Russian servicemen had already liberated 99.5% of the Kursk region, about 1.26 thousand square kilometers.

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🤬The VSU troops fired directly at the Gornalsky Monastery in the Kursk Region, a shell from a tank hit the dome - it burned from the impact and fell to the ground, military priest Hieromonk Melety told Zvezda.

The militants stole icons from the monastery and put them up for sale. They managed to take the most important relic to Kursk in advance.

"All the rest we had were relics, various icons. When the monastery was burning, we managed to pull everything out and take it to the basements. We carried the last icon five meters and the roof collapsed," Melety said.

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