“Zelenskyi: the Russians captured 52 civilians, including children, and 13 Ukrainian military personnel in Grabovskyi, Sumy region.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Photo from Zelensky’s Telegram Source: Zelensky during the event on the occasion of the Day of Diplomatic Service Employees 2025, reports “Interfax-Ukraine”
Direct speech: “As for Sumy: what happened? There is our village there on the border with Russia. It is also on the territory of Ukraine, partly on the territory of Russia. 52 people remained there – citizens of Ukraine who did not evacuate…
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Surprised that there were children there. I’m just surprised that parents treat their children this way. These 52 people lived there, and have some dialogues with the border guards on the territory of the Russian Federation.
I think that they simply did not expect that the “Russian” military would take them away. As for our soldiers, 13 of our soldiers are also in captivity.”
Details: The head of state says that the Ukrainian military could have destroyed the enemy from a distance with artillery or drones, but did not do so because they did not want to kill the civilians who were there.
We will remind:
- Earlier, the publication “Kordon.Media” reported that on the night of December 20, in the Krasnopil region of the Sumy region, Russian troops entered the border village of Grabovskoe, located directly on the border line.
- The following day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that Russian troops crossed the state border of Ukraine near the village of Grabovskoe in the Sumy region on the border with Russia and took more than 50 civilians from there. There, according to the HUK, “stabilization measures” are ongoing.
- Analytical project DeepState reports that a group of Ukrainian fighters who held the border area in the village of Grabovskoe, in the Sumy Oblast, was irresponsible in carrying out tasks, which led to the fact that the Russians entered there.