In the GUR and the Armed Forces, the Western media information about the "hundreds" of prisoners in Avdiivka was denied
About it writes NV with reference to sources in the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the deputy commander of the third separate assault brigade Maxim Zhorin said that as a result of hostilities in Avdiivka in captivity on both sides, there were a commemorative number of people. "There are no thousands of Ukrainian military captured in Avdiivka. Most likely we received the prisoners about the same on both sides.
We also took a lot of Russians in captivity," almost every of their coming brigade. We took the last prisoners last night (February 24, Ed. ) And we continue to do it, "Georin said. He added that only the 3rd OSHB was captured by dozens of Russians. Recall that on February 20, the American edition of The New York Times published material that hundreds of Ukrainian servicemen were captured or disappeared during the retreat from Avdiivka.
This information was told by "two soldiers who know about retreat. " According to them, the number of captives or missing persons ranges from 850 to 1000 people. The article also states that unnamed "Western officials" consider this range "accurate". On February 21, a spokesman for the united Press Center of Defense forces of Tavriysky Dmitry Likhov's publication of American journalists called misinformation.
The Armed Forces do not hide or deny that during the final stage of the Avdi -Defense Operation, a certain part of the fighters did not communicate. According to Likhviya, some of them can be injured and later they can communicate with their units. And stories about hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners in Avdiivka are the continuation of Russian aggression, including fakes and misinformation, which is "not confirmed".