Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russian fighters secretly entered the rear of the Ukrainian military in the Donetsk direction and took prisoners. This was reported on March 23 by the RT TV channel, citing attack aircraft of the "South" group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
It is noted that six soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were killed during the operation. Another four surrendered, but one of them was eliminated by his own people: he came under Ukrainian mortar fire.
"Four of us came out - that's it, we started to lead them out of the forest plantation, out of their dugout. And their mortar started to fire at us, the cassettes started to fire. One of them died. And three of them - we led them out, brought them to the dugout," said one of the Russian soldiers.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on March 10, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, published his conversation with the fighters before the start of Operation Potok, who crawled several kilometers along a gas pipeline to the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sudzhansky District of the Kursk Region, on his Telegram channel. According to him, the unique operation will be included not only in training manuals for special services, but also in Russian history textbooks.
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov, said on March 12 that Operation Potok (Pipe) came as a complete surprise to the Ukrainian army. During it, over 600 Russian soldiers traveled about 15 km through a pipe and reached deep behind enemy lines.
On March 13, the Akhmat special forces soldiers who took part in Operation Potok told the editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency, Marina Akhmedova, that some of the soldiers began to hallucinate in the pipe. At the same time, the Russian soldiers supported each other, and it was morally easier for them to go.
On March 17, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the head of state, Vladimir Putin, had spoken with the participants of Operation Potok. They will be awarded after the relevant presentations by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Kremlin representative added.
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