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Watch moment Russian troops surrender ‘en masse’ to Ukrainian forces & wave white flag as Kursk invasion enters day 6
Watch the moment Russian troops are made to submit
THIS is the humiliating moment Vladimir Putin's troops were forced to drop to their knees and wave white flags as they surrendered to Ukraine.
Armed Ukrainians can be seen making their Russian enemies hand themselves over "en masse" with their hands behind their heads as the battle for Kursk enters its sixth day.
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Footage appears to show a Ukrainian soldier standing tall as three rows of crouching Russians cower in a field.
The captives were made to say "Glory to Ukraine" back to the gun-wielding soldier, the footage shows.
In a separate clip, nine FSB security service officers were seen walking together in a line as they gave themselves up to Ukrainian troops.
Shocking video shows some of the officers waving white flags as others hold up their hands in defeat.
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The embarrassing set of surrenders took place somewhere in the war-torn Kursk region but no further information has been given on where the captives were held.
Vladimir Osechkin, founder of Gulagu.net, an anti-torture human rights group, said the videos will come as a huge shock for the Kremlin.
He said: "Dozens of Russian servicemen, including a whole number of FSB staff have surrendered to Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"There is shock among the Federal Security Service members, because it is one thing when the war is somewhere far away, and another when your FSB colleagues are captured and forced to lie face down, and taken away to become a part of an exchange fund."
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The scenes are set to anger an already Putin after he was caught out by the surprise mini invasion this week.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky's men went on the offensive with a barrage of calculated strikes as they pushed back against Vlad's army who steamed into Ukraine in February 2022.
They are reported to have killed hundreds of Russian troops, blitzed a key airfield, and spread chaos in Putin's own backyard.
Their latest blitz saw Kursk city pounded by a wave of kamikaze drones and Tochka-U tactical missiles overnight.
A residential building was seen up in flames following one of the blasts with footage showing a car on fire and plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.
Fire crews watched on as dozens were reportedly injured after Russia downed one of the four missiles.
Governor of Kursk region Alexei Smirnov said: “Today a downed Ukrainian missile fell on a residential building in the city of Kursk.
"A fire broke out.”
Further reports of regional power outages and even a giant fireball blast on a gas rig in the Black Sea have also plagued Putin's army.
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Russia's war machine has spent the last six days wrestling to gain back territory and prevent Kyiv from gaining a further foothold.
Moscow launched a massive "counter-terror operation" in three regions on Saturday as the defence ministry announced a major deployment of their military capabilities over to the frontlines.
In a statement to local media they said Russia is moving "multiple rocket launchers, towed artillery guns, tanks transported on trawls, heavy tracked vehicles and Ural and Kamaz trucks".
They are being sent to defend Kursk's Sudzhansky District which has been at the heart of Ukrainian attacks since Tuesday morning.
Despite the emergency deployment of troops the ministry claim they have now prevented Ukraine from advancing further into Russian land.
They declared they had "thwarted the attempts of the enemy’s mobile groups to get to the depth of the Russian territory".
The Russian army has even used a thermobaric bomb to suffocate its targets, say reports.
Claims of Putin halting the Ukrainian march have been largely dismissed however as the flocks of Kursk residents were ordered to evacuate the war-torn region.
At least 76,000 have already left so far with Russian authorities setting up temporary accommodation in eight regions - with up to 60 shelters.
People have been seen flocking out of the blitzed region on buses, trains and cars after repeated strikes in the last few days.
Speaking to his nation, Zelensky declared he would "restore justice" after Russia invaded over two years ago.
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He said in his nightly address: "Today, I received several reports from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi regarding the front lines and our actions to push the war onto the aggressor's territory.
"Ukraine is proving that it can indeed restore justice and ensure the necessary pressure on the aggressor."
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