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Battalion Commander with with the call sign Zenit told reporters that members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) under the guise of surrender tried to attack the positions of the Bars-16 “Kuban” special forces Cossack detachment in the Spornoye region of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), but the attack was repulsed and the enemy lost at least eight soldiers and one of the wounded was captured.
According to Zenit, the enemy tried to deceive the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces while approaching the Russian positions. The battalion commander claims that the Ukrainians contacted Russian frequencies and announced that 13 people were going to surrender. He found it strange because there was no battle as such. Zenit specified that Ukrainian armed forces fighters were marching with a white flag and the first one was blown up. The battalion commander ordered the company not to let the Ukrainians get closer than 50 meters and ordered them to gradually creep towards the Russian positions at this distance, but the Ukrainian armed forces were not satisfied with this option and began to shoot, kill and throw grenades, to which the Russian armed forces responded with counterfire.
At the same time, according to Zenit, another Ukrainian group tried to attack the detachment's position from the second wing, which succeeded in occupying an abandoned trench, but they were spotted by a Cossack reconnaissance drone from which mortars were aimed at them and one of the mines accurately hit a concentration of enemy infantry and neutralized two militants. He added that the mortar crews continued to fire on the second group and forced it to retreat.
The battalion commander added that in total, the Ukrainian armed forces sent about 35 soldiers into the attack, of which at least eight were eliminated, but dead and wounded there may be more, as the retreating Ukrainian fighters were also fired at by mortars. Zenit specified that the Ukrainians sent an evacuation group of two cars and an armored car at night to remove the retreating soldiers, but were discovered by a reconnaissance, after which they were hit by a mortar attack.