KURSK, November 15. /TASS/. A group of Ukrainian servicemen in Russia’s Kursk Region chose to surrender after learning that the Russian Armed Forces had captured five of their positions simultaneously, with little to no casualties, Alexander Rapolyuk, a Ukrainian captive, said.

"We surrendered without a fight and waited until the following morning. We heard that your forces had taken five of our positions, with almost no casualties. Only one was lightly wounded. That was it. Our entire platoon was virtually wiped out," the prisoner of war said in a video accessed by TASS.

He added that they had originally been sent to the Kursk Region under the pretext of replacing their comrades, but upon arrival, they found that the servicemen they were meant to replace had already been killed.