Took Each Other Prisoner: How Russians Helped The AFU Liberate Andriyivka
1- 16.07.2025, 13:10
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The fighting continued for two weeks.
In Sumy Region, soldiers of the 225 separate assault regiment of the AFU managed to dislodge the Russians from the village of Andreevka in Sumy Region. The fighting lasted for two weeks. They told hromadske about how they liberated the village.
The village of Andreevka consists of 2 streets - quite a difficult terrain for infantry, a lot of greenery and a river, which limits movement. The occupants were able to establish themselves there - they built fortifications and occupied the plantations around it. Andreevka itself is of strategic importance, as its capture would allow the Russians to move towards Sumy and shell the regional center with artillery.
The soldiers of the 225th Assault Regiment were then ordered to clear one of the plantations.
"We entered Andreevka from the wheels, cut all approaches to the village and started mopping up," said deputy commander of the 225 Oshp Alexander Klimenko.
The troops moved in several waves, and the operation itself to liberate the village took 2 weeks. As Oleksandr Klimenko says, there was a coordinated work - to cut their approaches and take everything under fire control. First, the drone operators worked to destroy the positions and equipment of the Russians, and then came the Ukrainian infantry.
The Russians were frightened and began to retreat.
"What was memorable was that they took each other prisoner. The 177th Brigade, I think, if I'm not mistaken, took the 30th Battalion, or Brigade, prisoner. On their telegram channels, the Russians said we were the ones who killed everybody. Russian telegram channels said we killed the prisoners. We were filming from a drone and at first we couldn't figure it out ourselves because one group was pixelated. Some of them lined up, put the others on the ground, took a long time to sort it out, and when our drone flew to them, the ones who were prisoners were already killed. Then it turned out that they took each other prisoner," said deputy commander of the 225 Oshp Oleksandr Klimenko.
The soldier noted that the reasons for their inconsistency among themselves are not clear, but the AFU from what happened, "became pleasant."