[skeeter]

Not gonna subscribe, but what are the details regarding the surrender of Ukrainians ‘across the Russian border’? Seems unlikely they’d be so incautious as to cross the border voluntarily.

[1rudeboy]

The story is that some troops remained to cover the withdrawal of other troops, and then surrendered to the Russians.

[tcrlaf]

The group of 438 that surrendered seems to be a part of the trapped 72nd Brigade that was surrounded near Isvarino, where there was big fighting a few weeks ago, when Kiev tried to retake the border checkpoints.

There have been rumors of negotiations with the units trapped in the “South Pocket” for several days, and this seems to be the first bunch. There are several tweets saying that another group will surrender today, and that Rostov Hospitals have been placed on alert to receive 50+ UK casualties.

There are several pics and vids of them crossing the border on now on Twitter and youtube.

Per Berezin’s Briefing, the Right Sector militia that was with them, as well as a group of Kolomoisky’s mercs, have not surrendered, and will probably end up fighting to the death.

[tcrlaf]

Supposed pics of the surrendered troops, from Twitter: I think the second pic is from the group of twelve, incuding three officers, that surrendered at another border post on Saturday.