Ukrainian artillerymen from the twenty eighth Mechanised Brigade have captured their first prisoner: a person who was supposed to guide Russian sabotage and reconnaissance teams into the town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast.

Supply: twenty eighth Mechanised Brigade; the brigade in a video on YouTube

Quote: "Our artillerymen have completed one thing you’d by no means anticipate from their work – taken a prisoner. For the primary time. We are able to't say for certain, however this can be the primary such case you've seen on this conflict.

The prisoner isn’t any bizarre conscript. That is Oleg, an enemy saboteur who was supposed to guide Russian teams into the town itself. He was supposed to organize the bottom for an invasion from inside. It didn't work out.

He was captured – and with that, the occupiers' plans to construct up their forces in Kostiantynivka had been thwarted. In an irony of destiny, the artillery, which normally strikes from a distance, labored from shut vary this time."

Particulars: Within the footage, Ukrainian troopers recount how they went to retrieve a drone and noticed a person in a Russian uniform a few kilometre away. He didn't see them at first.

The Russian pretended to be an Azov fighter, however when informed to say "Palianytsia", he revealed his Russian accent. ["Palianytsia", a type of bread, is a Ukrainian word that Russians find difficult to pronounce properly. Since the full-scale Russian invasion started, Ukrainians have used the word as a means to identify Russian military or saboteurs – ed.] After he pointed his rifle at a Ukrainian soldier, one other Ukrainian shot him within the leg and captured him.

Later he was given meals and medical help and informed that he could be swapped.

The fighters mentioned that the Russian's identify was Oleg, he got here from the Russian metropolis of Penza, and he had been combating for over three years.

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