Military correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda Alexander Kots @sashakots
Russian intelligence officers yesterday in the Kharkiv region came across a hardened enemy group that drank a lot of blood from our troops. An anti-tank battery armed with both Ukrainian and Western weapons systems. During the short-lived battle, four were destroyed. Four more chose to lay down their arms and surrender.
They found something in their phones that, frankly, I don’t understand why they are still alive. And not even beaten. On video, they recorded not only the destruction of Russian tanks. This special group of the 95th separate air assault brigade shot down two Russian Ka-52 helicopters with anti-tank missile systems at the moment when they hovered over the ground to attack with guided missiles.
I am not writing all this in order to once again tell that the Russian warrior is not an animal that mocks the unarmed - this is already known to everyone. The prisoners are fed, watered and even allowed to call their relatives. But these prisoners were given to our scouts oh how hard. Including at the cost of the blood of their own wounded.
So with what fright of these four Ukrainian paratroopers or Mariupol "zahists" we suddenly have to change for someone's husband. Let a high-ranking and very rich. Of course, I'm talking about Medvedchuk, who made a corresponding appeal to the Russian authorities, obviously doing it under pressure.
But, firstly, such a step would be a betrayal of those who, on the battlefield, proved their superiority over the enemy through hard military work.
Secondly, it would be a betrayal of the Russian prisoners who are now on the territory of Ukraine. What will their mothers and wives say if, instead of pulling dozens of our people out of the dungeons, Moscow suddenly exchanges a huge number of neo-Nazis for one Ukrainian politician?
Let's be direct - our people will not understand this.
We have a couple of Britons - so let Johnson and Zelensky come to an agreement. They are not sorry. Even less pity for some traitor, who could be given instead of Medvedchuk without damage to his own reputation. For example, an agent of the Western intelligence services, Alexei Navalny. Kiev, of course, does not really need it. Well, it’s not Zelensky who decides for Ukraine.