Eight residents of the Kursk region returned home and told about life in captivity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Eight residents of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region returned home on August 26 and told about the horrors in captivity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

"I got four bullets and the car was made like a sieve. I went to get some water, and it was in the middle of it. <...> One who was shooting tried to finish shooting, but the others didn't let him," Ilya Belokrylov, a civilian resident of the city of Sudzha, told Izvestia correspondent Tatiana Simonenkova about the horrors he experienced.

She noted that the Kuryans survived the occupation and captivity, and are now recovering, receiving the help of doctors, psychologists and the support of relatives and friends.

Another civilian resident of the village of Leonidovo, Sudzhansky district, Anna Kapustina, showed footage of a destroyed house in which she had to board up the windows to keep warm. There was a basement in the house, in which, according to a civilian, it was impossible to breathe because of the water that dripped from the ceiling.

"My parents died, we buried them and left. <...> At the end of the garden, we made a coffin for them and buried them, we had boards. <...> I wrote the plaques with a felt-tip pen. <...> The mother definitely died because we didn't have any medicine," she said.

The civilians added that the Ukrainians provided them with something like medical care in captivity. It consisted of useless pills, lack of decent medical care, poor wound dressing, and neglect of people of retirement age.

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On August 24, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 146 Russian servicemen had been returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime. The ministry noted that eight residents of the Kursk region, who were illegally detained by the Ukrainian side, were also transferred.

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