{"id":114319,"date":"2024-08-14T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/ukrainian-soldiers-in-kursk-say-they-hope-incursion-will-wake-up-russians-to-realities-of-war\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:21:06","slug":"ukrainian-soldiers-in-kursk-say-they-hope-incursion-will-wake-up-russians-to-realities-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/ukrainian-soldiers-in-kursk-say-they-hope-incursion-will-wake-up-russians-to-realities-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk say they hope incursion will ‘wake up’ Russians to realities of war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Ukrainian soldier holds up a Russian rifle taken from inside Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“A trophy,” he says, smiling.<\/p>\n

One of his colleagues, also grinning, produces a military uniform patch that reads “Armed Forces of Russia<\/strong><\/a>” and a 10 rouble note.<\/p>\n

“Russian money,” he says.<\/p>\n

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The pair are part of a small team of soldiers on a grey pickup truck on the Ukrainian<\/strong><\/a> side of a border crossing point into the Kursk region of Russia.<\/p>\n

A third serviceman, who gives his name as Vasil, says the unit has been fighting in Russia since the beginning of the cross-border attack from Sumy region, in northeastern Ukraine, eight days ago.<\/p>\n

He says the Russian soldiers they had encountered were just “running away”.<\/p>\n

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Asked what his group is planning to do next, he says, speaking in English: “[I] think go further [in], yes.”<\/p>\n

As for whether he is scared, he says: “No.”<\/p>\n

It is the same reply when asked whether he thinks Vladimir Putin’s<\/strong><\/a> forces will succeed in pushing the Ukrainian attackers out.<\/p>\n

“No,” he says.<\/p>\n

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Speaking with the measured, matter-of-fact tone of an experienced soldier – he has been fighting Russia’s invasion of his country since 2014 – Vasil says being part of the force invading Russia is “nothing special… I’m doing my job”.<\/p>\n

Without giving much away, he says his unit was involved in monitoring and surveillance.<\/p>\n

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But the soldier does share one thing he hopes will come of the incursion – showing Russian people the reality of war.<\/p>\n

“Maybe they [the Russians] will understand [it’s] not very an interesting thing when sit at home and watch TV – war is war.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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