Russian soldiers that fled female prison surrounded by Ukrainian forces awarded for “courage and bravery”
Pravda Ukraine
The Russian military, who held positions in a female prison in the village of Malaya Loknya, Kursk Oblast, but then retreated under the pressure from Ukraine’s Armed Forces, received orders and medals “for courage and bravery.”
Source: Alexei Smirnov, the acting Governor of Kursk Oblast, on Telegram; Astra Telegram channel
Details: Smirnov stated that the women’s prison was defended by a motorised rifle battalion of the Northern Grouping of Forces and border guards.
According to him, the Russians held the prison despite being surrounded and attacked by the superior Ukrainian forces that employed Marder and Stryker infantry combat vehicles.
According to Smirnov, the Russian military “turned the buildings of the institution into a fortress,” erected protective structures along the perimeter “and heroically held their positions for several days.”
According to Astra, the Russian military eventually retreated, when a Ukrainian tank destroyed the buildings on the territory of the colony and holding them was making no sense anymore.
On 23 August, it was reported that Ukrainian forces stormed a women’s prison building in Russia’s Kursk Oblast where Russian soldiers have entrenched themselves and set up firing positions.
Background:
- Ukraine launched the Kursk offensive on 6 August. On 10 August, the fifth day of Ukrainian forces’ advance into Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine was undertaking operations to bring the war to Russia.
- On 13 August, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, informed Zelenskyy that Ukraine’s defence forces control 74 settlements in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. By the afternoon of 15 August, Syrskyi reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had advanced up to 1.5 kilometres on some axes in Kursk Oblast since the beginning of the day and controlled 82 settlements in Russia.
- On 15 August, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) told Ukrainska Pravda that 102 Russian soldiers had been captured in Russia’s Kursk Oblast by the SSU forces.
- On 16 August, Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces shared footage of the first hours of the operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. The video shows demining operations, the breach of the Russian border by Ukrainian forces, the destruction of Russian defence lines, air and artillery operations, and the process of capturing prisoners of war.
- Later that same day, the 80th Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine’s Armed Forces shared footage from the early hours of the military operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, in which its soldiers breached the defence line, destroyed a border checkpoint and captured over 50 prisoners.
- As of 20 August, Ukrainian forces controlled more than 1,260 sq km of territory and 93 settlements in Kursk Oblast, Russia.
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