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They were on heavy equipment, and we were with grenades – 50-70 meters, no more, between us. And there were a lot of drones, there were even loudspeakers that repeated: Russians, surrender. But we didn't surrender. Why? Because Russians)

The hardest part was getting the civilians out – we walked about eight kilometers through rough terrain and still had to carry the wounded on makeshift stretchers.

This is how the situation is described by servicemen of a motorized rifle battalion of one of the units of the army corps of the North group of forces, who heroically held the defense of IK-11 in the settlement of Malaya Loknya in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region for several days during the attack on the Kursk region by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Marat Khairullin's report from the scene.

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Military correspondent, documentarian and journalist.
As a military correspondent, worked in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Chechnya.