![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/sickening-moment-russia-opens-fire-on-own-troops-as-they-try-to-surrender-in-ukraine/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_Description-Russia-attacks-its-own-troops-In-the-Andriivka-region-the-2nd-assault.jpg&description=WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Aerial footage shows Kyiv's soldiers ordering Russian troops to lie on the ground as they surrender, before an explosion suddenly goes off on both forces This is the horrifying moment that Russia opened fire on its own troops after they surrendered. Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Andriivka - about six miles south of the Russia-occupied town of Bakhmut - as part of a slow but steady counter-offensive. The 3rd Assault Brigade said it surrounded the Russian garrison in what it described as a "lightning operation" and destroying it over two days. Posting on Telegram, it shared a clip said to be taken a day after it recaptured the area. The aerial footage shows Kyiv's soldiers ordering Russian troops to lie on the ground as they surrender, before an explosion suddenly goes off on both forces. The post reportedly read: "Assault group 2 of the mechanized battalion takes another group of prisoners. At the same time the enemy, realising that the village is lost and his soldiers are surrendering en masse, orders to open 'fire on their own.'" The Ukrainian troops involved in the incident are believed to be unharmed, but the assault unit said that one of the Russian soldiers was killed. According to the Kyiv Post, it wrote that one of the Russians was "captured in pieces, two are lucky and are taken out to live", adding: "Luck plays a role in war." The announcement of reclaiming Andriivka came early on Friday from the General Staff of Ukraine's armed forces. It described the recapture as a breakthrough on the southern flank of Bakhmut and "key to success in all further directions". Just hours before confirming the capture of Andriivka early on Friday, the brigade contested a statement by Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar saying the village was reclaimed. The fighting in and around Bakhmut, a salt-mining town now in complete ruins, marked the war's longest and bloodiest engagement. After Russian forces led by the Wagner){kind=link}
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Aerial footage shows Kyiv’s soldiers ordering Russian troops to lie on the ground as they surrender, before an explosion suddenly goes off on both forces
This is the horrifying moment that Russia opened fire on its own troops after they surrendered.
Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Andriivka – about six miles south of the Russia-occupied town of Bakhmut – as part of a slow but steady counter-offensive. The 3rd Assault Brigade said it surrounded the Russian garrison in what it described as a “lightning operation” and destroying it over two days.
Posting on Telegram, it shared a clip said to be taken a day after it recaptured the area. The aerial footage shows Kyiv’s soldiers ordering Russian troops to lie on the ground as they surrender, before an explosion suddenly goes off on both forces.
The post reportedly read: “Assault group 2 of the mechanized battalion takes another group of prisoners. At the same time the enemy, realising that the village is lost and his soldiers are surrendering en masse, orders to open ‘fire on their own.'”