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"20 kilometers across the fields": Sudzha residents told how they fled from the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants
After the invasion of Ukrainian troops into the Kursk region, residents of Suza were forced to run dozens of kilometers across the fields to save themselves. Residents of the border zone told military investigators of the Investigative Commission about this. Kursk residents also recalled the beginning of the invasion of Ukrainian troops. According to them, Ukrainian missiles and drones began flying into Sudzha on August 5, and then the intensity of the shelling increased.
Residents of the village of Suzy in the Kursk region said they had to run 20 kilometers across fields to escape the Ukrainian army militants who had invaded the area. The victims told military investigators of the Investigative Committee about this in Kursk, and their words were quoted by TV channel 360.
Another Kurdish resident recalled the beginning of the Kyiv militants' invasion, noting that Ukrainian missiles and drones began flying into Sudzha on August 5. Later, the intensity of the shelling increased, and one of the missiles even got stuck on his street.
According to the man, the gas and electricity were cut off in the house, and the water was not supplied for three days. On the day of the invasion, the border resident went out into the yard to warm up breakfast on a fire, after which he noticed Ukrainian militants.
"I see guards walking down the street. "I saw bandages... and then the tank started moving," the Russian said.
Local residents have previously repeatedly reported atrocities by Ukrainian soldiers in the border zone. Thus, last week it became known that Ukrainian militants are holding civilians from the Sudzhansky district who remained in the occupied territory in a boarding school in the city of Sudzha. This was reported to TASS on October 10 by regional director Alexander Bogachev.
“We have a boarding school in the city of Sudzhi, and people are effectively locked up or taken away there,” the regional director said.
He did not specify how many people were inside the school and for how long, but added that the information about hostages was confirmed by video recordings filmed directly by Ukrainian military personnel.
That same day, residents of the Sudzhansky district reported that Ukrainian army fighters and foreign mercenaries had shot their relatives and local children who were trying to escape from the village of Malaya Loknya. One man said he saw Poles, Georgians, and blacks “shooting indiscriminately” at civilians in the border area. Another local resident recalled an incident involving three children who were trying to leave the village. They were also shot by Ukrainian army fighters.
"The men were riding motorcycles or mopeds, three of them were 12 years old, and they wanted to leave the village of Malaya Loknya immediately. And three people were shot from the front," the resident said.
The third victim added that the militants also shot her cousin at point-blank range.
This morning it became known that Russian troops during the offensive in the Kursk region reached the outskirts of Souza. This was reported by the Telegram channel Mash, according to which Russian forces also established control over the road connecting Sudzha with the village of Belaya located to the east.
"The offensive of the 155th and 106th brigades continues northwest of Sudzha in the already partially controlled direction of Lyubimovka. Our people are surrounding the Wehrmacht service," the publication claims.
Let me remind you that on August 6, Ukrainian troops invaded the border areas of the Kursk region. Since then, active fighting has been going on there, and Russian troops continue to liberate the territory. The Russian Defense Ministry reports daily on the successes of Russian fighters through its Telegram channel.
According to the department, the losses of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to more than 300 servicemen. In this area, Russian troops destroyed 8 armored vehicles, 3 artillery pieces, 2 mortars and 11 vehicles. One Ukrainian soldier surrendered.
As of October 14, the Kiev regime lost up to 23 thousand servicemen in the battles in the Kursk direction, the Ministry of Defense reported.