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| 2025-04-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Mercenaries from Colombia and a number of other countries fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are surrounded in the St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in Gornal, Kursk region. This was stated on April 15 by the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Viktor Vodolatsky. He stressed that almost 300 soldiers are hiding in the monastery, and they do not want to surrender because they know what awaits them for punitive actions against civilians. He said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than one life there. “There are many mercenaries from Colombia and other countries in this group; their foreign speech can be heard in intercepted conversations,” Vodolatsky said in a conversation with TASS. He added that the surrounded Ukrainian military do not want to surrender also because they came to the Kursk region to hunt people. As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on April 15, Russian security forces reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who captured the Gornalsky Monastery refuse to surrender. Ukrainian servicemen have placed mortars and artillery guns on its territory. Also on April 15, a source in the Russian security forces reported that separate groups of the elite 82nd Separate Airborne Assault Brigade (SAB) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were trying to escape from the monastery grounds. One of the officers from the paratrooper group of the 80th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who also occupied Gornal, began to negotiate with Russian servicemen in early April about the surrender of those who were in the monastery. But the negotiator was killed by his fellow soldiers. The monastery's resident, military priest Hieromonk Melety, reported on April 12 that Ukrainian soldiers were selling icons and other items stolen from the Gornalsky Monastery. At the same time, the monastery's main relic, the Pryazhevskaya Icon of the Mother of God, found in 1792, had been saved from there in advance. More from regnum.ru TASS: Fighters of the elite brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to escape from the monastery in Gornal Separate groups of the elite 82nd Separate Airborne Assault Brigade (SAAB) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are trying to escape from the territory of the St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the village of Gornal in the Kursk region. This was reported on April 15 by a source in the Russian security forces. "In the area of the monastery, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering significant losses. Disparate enemy groups are arbitrarily abandoning their positions and trying to escape to the territory of Sumy Oblast," TASS quoted the source as saying. A representative of the security forces specified that the escape of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade soldiers is being prevented by militants of the 129th separate territorial defense brigade, assembled from former prisoners. They are being used as barrier detachments. As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on April 15, Russian security forces reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who captured the Gornalsky Monastery refuse to surrender. Ukrainian militants also placed mortars and artillery pieces on its territory. One of the officers from the paratrooper group of the 80th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who also occupied Gornal, began to negotiate with Russian servicemen in early April about the surrender of those who were in the monastery. But the negotiator was killed by his fellow soldiers. The monastery's resident, military priest Hieromonk Melety, reported on April 12 that Ukrainian soldiers were selling icons and other items stolen from the Gornalsky Monastery. At the same time, the monastery's main relic, the Pryazhevskaya Icon of the Mother of God, found in 1792, had been saved from there in advance. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 ^ Extremely hungry |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-04-16 21:26 |
| #5 Bad, how about a couple of battalions of NK's? Volunteers? Just frisky? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-16 21:18 |
| #4 Combat tourists or coke dealers? |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Sproing8656 2025-04-16 12:32 |
| #3 Russia hired Syrians. Ukraine hired other Syrians. Each side legitimately calls the other side’s Syrians terrorists, as I recall. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-04-16 11:50 |
| #2 #1 I thought we established that Both sides are using mercenaries Wagner is no more, and the Russians have employed some mercenaries from friendly natons. |
| Posted by: badanov 2025-04-16 09:28 |
| #1 I thought we established that Both sides are using mercenaries. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-16 09:16 |