Soldiers of the 12th Brigade of the Azov National Guard captured 20 Russian soldiers in the Toretsk sector of Donetsk region.
According to the brigade’s press service, the prisoners include a platoon commander, a squad leader, riflemen, rifle drivers and grenade launchers. Some of them are natives of the Caucasus and the Russian Far East.
‘They were lucky to survive. But most of their ‘comrades’ remained lying in the fields and plantations after the failed assaults,’ Azov noted.
The brigade stressed that voluntary surrender is the only chance for the Russian military to return home alive and be exchanged.
Most of the prisoners served in the 9th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade, formed on the basis of the 9th Separate Marine Regiment of the so-called ‘DPR’. This brigade is now part of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation.