The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are dressed in the form of "Ukrposhta" and penetrate in Pokrovsk - Telegraph (photo, video)

"Carefully, these are Russians,"-said in a message that warns other servicemen of the 25th separate airborne brigade of Ukraine. As it became known, Russian troops use this new tactics to penetrate Pokrovsk, a key logistics knot, and an attack on the Armed Forces. It is part of Russia's race from the capture of the city and the maximum possible part of the Ukrainian territory on the eve of the summit of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska.

Earlier it was reported that Ukraine may agree to give way to the territories already held by Russia as part of a peace plan supported by Europe. This would mean freezing the front line in the Trump Agreement and the transfer of the actual control over the occupied territories in Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Crimea. Russia's efforts to capture as much territory as possible.

The sabotage and intelligence detachments broke through weakened defense structures in the area of Dobropillya in Donetsk region, moving at a distance of 10 kilometers from the front line in just 48 hours, according to reports from hostilities. Their goal is to cut off Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk, another important stronghold in the Donbass, which is under the control of Ukraine.

However, the Soldiers of the Armed Forces give a decent repel, so the Russians are forced to resort to tricks and hide in civilian among civilians, said the deputy commander of the brigade Ilya Petrin. "We saw the Russians dressed in military uniform, even in ours. We find Russian military uniform in places where we know," he says. The brigade even intercepted Russian radio intervals, in which soldiers discuss these variants of masking.

According to Petrina, the main task of the Russians is to attack infantry groups or light -hearted equipment and violate the logistics of Ukrainian troops. The minor task is to keep in touch with the locals and spread misinformation. "They tell them that 500 Russians have already entered Pokrovsk to convince them no longer help Ukrainians," he says. At least 28 Russian servicemen have been recognized in the second half of last month.

Petrina says that a wave of saboteurs was first spotted on July 18, when bad weather limited the capabilities of Ukrainian drones and gave Russian troops the opportunity to penetrate the city. The saboteurs acted in groups of three to four people, occupying abandoned homes and putting on any civilian clothes they could find. In one case, a Russian soldier who last survived from his unit was found in the Ukrposhta T -shirt.

And on a mobile phone removed from a Russian soldier, a map Pokrovska was found with roads and routes used by Russian troops to enter the city. "We found the route that they penetrated into the city. The assault brigade was ordered, and the entrance was blocked," Ilya explained, saying that as the route progress, the Ukrainian forces began to find a Russian uniform thrown in houses, and then the Armed Forces began to filter among the civilians. The filtration process lasted nine days.

Ukrainian soldiers went from the house to the house with famous routes of penetration, talking to the inhabitants to distinguish their from others. According to Petrina, in one of the houses they collided with Russian troops. The Ukrainian forces destroyed the whole detachment, throwing the basement with grenades where they were hiding. Above they found a Russian uniform, scattered around the rooms. Residents of Pokrovskaya help Ukrainian forces to recognize saboteurs.

One of the video shows how two pensioners are sent to the Ukrainian drone to the house where Russian soldiers hid. The grandmother even opened the gate to fly the Ukrainian drone and killed the soldiers who were inside. But Russian saboteurs complicate the task. Sometimes Ukrainian soldiers are not sure who is a friend and who is the enemy. "It is very difficult," says Petrina, remembering the case when a mysterious antenna appeared on the roof of the building.

"Our drones began to fly around this building, thinking that the Russians could hide there, after which the husband first came out and then showed his wife and child. " Since Ukraine does not carry out a forced evacuation from the cities covered by the battle, soldiers have to constantly decide who a peaceful resident and who may be a masked opponent. This uncertainty also limits the arsenal of weapons used, often forcing drones instead of artillery.

Petrina believes that Russian soldiers wear civilian clothes not only for sabotage, but also for fear and hope to go unnoticed. He claims that the brigade intercepted radio intervals, in which the Russian military was questioned by their tasks: "They began to ask themselves:" Why are we here? We do not understand what is the task.

"Although some messages suggest that saboteurs could be representatives of Russian sabotage and intelligence groups (DRG)-a kind of special forces, the deputy commander Petrin states that the soldiers who were found in Pokrovsk are a common infantry, a small group. They will not send their special units to Pokrovsk for these tasks, because it is almost one hundred percent death, "he says.