
The Russian Volunteer Corps announced the captivity of 25 Russian military during the "operation in the Belgorod and Kursk regions." One of the prisoners - senior lieutenant Alexei Kolotov - was shown on the camera, his mother confirmed Astra that he was captured. The woman said that her son served under a contract, in 2023 his term expired, but he was not released from the service.
The leader of the unonanceist union Denis Kapustin, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Russia, invited the Belgorod Governor Gladkov to a meeting to transfer them.
The Pepel Telegram channel analyzed the RDK video and suggests that the video with the “prisoners of war” is a staged and only real soldier on it-Kolotov.
Firstly, in the hands of “prisoners of war” there are no latches that are usually used for immobilization, such as plastic clamps. Some of the participants in the video imitate that their hands are tied. The video clearly shows that the “prisoner of war” in the middle, which subsequently raises his hands, folding them into the castle, his hands are not tied - his brushes lie on each other in a free position, and at the beginning the video is generally noticeable that he raised only one hand. If you look closely, you can see that the military man to the left of the central “prisoner of war” generally sat with free hands and puts them in the castle at the time of shooting, writes Pepel.
This is not the first time that RDK reports the seizure of prisoners in the territory of the Belgorod region of Russia and calls for Gladkova will meet for exchange. The governor preferred not to participate in negotiations, saying that RDK most likely killed the military captured by the military. Subsequently, it turned out that the military was alive. Their fate is currently unknown.