Russia Executes 9 Captured POW’s Disrobing, Then Shooting on The Back of the Head
David Axe Forbes Staff David Axe writes about ships, planes, tanks, drones and missiles. After a strong Ukrainian force with around a dozen battalions invaded Russia’s Kursk Oblast on Aug. 6, quickly seizing 400 square miles of the oblast, Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin reportedly gave his troops until Oct. 1 to eject the Ukrainian invaders. The Russians missed the deadline, but not for a lack of trying. And not for a lack of brutality. A recent Russian counterattack on the western edge of the Ukrainian salient, seemingly led by the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, didn’t get very far—but it got far enough to overtake a team of Ukrainian drone operators near a Ukrainian-occupied Russian fortification outside the village of Leonidovo. The area is garrisoned by the Ukrainian army’s 33rd Assault Battalion and 41st Mechanized Brigade. Shortly after capturing the nine Ukrainians, the Russians reportedly stripped them down to their underwear, forced them to lie face-down on the ground—a
