At the same time, several dozen occupiers were destroyed.
about two dozen occupiers were taken prisoner, an officer of the special unit Timur of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine with the call sign Viking said on the air of the telethon.
“The battle lasted a little over a week. There was intense shelling from the enemy. The enemy itself at the plant offered considerable resistance, but in the end we completed the mission,” the intelligence officer said.
He confirmed that as a result of the operation, the GUR special forces managed to take the Russian occupiers prisoner.
“At the Volchansk Aggregate Plant, up to two dozen of the enemy were taken prisoner, several dozen were destroyed. Also, four occupiers tried to leave the plant and were neutralized along the perimeter of the plant,” Viking said.
- In June, the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov reported that Russian troops in Volchansk remained blocked at one of the industrial enterprises.
- Later, the American Institute for the Study of War reported that Russian troops had likely captured the entire Volchansk Aggregate Plant.
- On September 24, it became known that GUR units had liberated the Volchansk Aggregate Plant from the occupiers. The territory of the aggregate plant was transferred under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after all 30 buildings of the facility were cleared.