The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) forgot an entire unit of their fighters in the village of Korenevo in the Kursk region of Russia, the captured commander of the third platoon of the second company of the 11th separate rifle battalion, Senior Lieutenant of the AFU Anton Furdolenko said.
His platoon was ordered to occupy a forest belt, but it was already occupied by servicemen of the 225th brigade of the AFU. Then they were taken in an armoured vehicle to rotate the fighters in Korenevo.
"In the evening, they did not rotate us, our radio was dying, on the second day it died, on the second day they did not rotate us either, I understood from the negotiations that they lost us, they did not know where to look for us," Anton Furdolenko said.
On day three, Russian units entered the village and surrounded the Ukrainian platoon. As a result of the negotiations, the AFU fighters surrendered.
On September 3, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the military of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet set up an ambush and stopped the advance of the AFU column in the border area of the Kursk region.
"The enemy ran into the positions of the 810th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet in the area of one of the settlements, but the marines of the Sever group of forces stopped the advance of the column of Ukrainian armed formations," the department said in a statement.