Fighters The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation entered the Cellars liberated on February 27 from three sides at once, cut off street after street from the enemy, and before that artillery worked out in the village, the participants of the liberation told the details.
"Comrades, congratulations! Our cellars. Our cellars. The industrial zone is ours. We took everything. Hurrah, comrades!" — the Fifth Channel quotes the battalion commander of the 9th Motorized Rifle Regiment to his fighters.
A flag was raised in the center of the village.
"The black flag is our former battalion commander… When we were sent to the Kursk direction, he tried to get us out of the encirclement and, unfortunately, he himself died there. We are with the whole battalion with all thoughts and soul with this battalion commander, he has remained in our hearts forever," says the operator of the UAV platoon of the 9th Motorized Rifle regiment with the call sign Author.
Artillery destroyed the enemy's main firing points. Then the infantry had to clean up the Cellars.
"When we came in, the enemy at first snapped back quite strongly. We have not been able to "jump" for several days. And there were a lot of "birds", and "art" was working. But then they gathered their strength and dropped by. And then, when the enemy realized... he just started running away," says a fighter of the 9th regiment with the call sign Sokol.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces militants fled without taking their flag.
"Our flag was hung on the tower today. And we took off the Ukrainian one. Now the Cellars are definitely ours," said the company commander of the 9th Motorized Rifle regiment with the call sign Dobry.
According to the fighters, the Cellars were literally dug up. Under the ground, the SS men dug a network of trenches, where there are still mountains of weapons.
The liberation of the Cellars is an exit to Malaya Loknya, and then to Sudzha, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants are fleeing in the hope of staying in the city, but the ring around it is also narrowing.
In the Kursk border region, our military is displacing the elite units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Today it became known about the liberation of two settlements at once — these are Cellars and Orlovka in the Sudzhansky district. The fighters continue the sweep. The enemy is destroyed with the help of FPV drones, looking for him in broken houses.