
On the territory of Russia there are 311 Ukrainian security forces who retreated at night across the Gukovo border point, after the terrorists under Chervon -Partizansky, Lugansk Region, were surrounded by terrorists. According to Ukrainian Pravda, this was announced by the press secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrei Lysenko. Among the retreating - 171 military and 140 border guards.
“The official bodies of Ukraine do everything possible to return our military personnel home,” added Lysenko.
Earlier on Monday, it was reported that part of the 72nd separate Belotserkovo mechanized brigade managed to break through the encirclement , while the other part, which provided fire support for the breakthrough, blew up the remains of damaged equipment and retreated to the territory of Russia. At the same time, the representative of the FSB border control in the Rostov Region Vasily Malaev announced 438 military who crossed the border, including more than 160 border guards.
It was also information that in the near future the security forces would be delivered to the Matveev Kurgan checkpoint to transfer to the Ukrainian side and that one of the Ukrainian military was seriously wounded and he was hospitalized in the Gukov city hospital.
According to the press secretary of the ATO headquarters, Alexei Dmittrashkovsky, the territory on which the encircled brigade was located, was fired for almost four hours with a very powerful and dense fire from the Grad, artillery, tanks and mortars.
The retreating part of the brigade, the officer added, covered the breakthrough to the last cartridge.