Soldiers of the 2nd Company of the 2nd Assault Battalion of the 3rd Assault Brigade captured six Russians who thought their own troops were storming them.

The brigade’s press service posted the video of the incident.

The assault group was led by the Commander of the ‘Datsyk’ Company, who decided to go behind enemy lines and neutralize an observation post located 200 meters from the forward edge.

According to the Commander, the enemy observation post’s task was to monitor the movement of Ukrainian troops’ equipment and personnel.

The group had to approach the enemy without the cover of their own drones and avoid being caught by the enemy’s lenses. The attack aircraft approached the enemy’s OP from the “blind” side.

The well-camouflaged position was discovered thanks to voices coming from one of the dugouts. After detecting the enemy personnel, the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade started to throw hand grenades at it.

During the assault, they came up with the idea of staging a false assault mission on the position by allied forces.

The Ukrainian assault group started shouting in Russian demands to surrender, to which the dugout responded that the Russians were in the position.

When the Russians believed that their own troops were mistakenly storming them, they came out of the dugout and, unaware of the “setup trap,” surrendered without a fight.

The prisoners were taken to Ukrainian positions, convinced that they were going to the position of the “neighbors” for inspection. The Russians handed over their firing positions, the company’s OP, and a map to the Ukrainian troops.

The prisoners also said that the body of a dead Russian soldier had been lying in their position for 10 days, and they “did not know what to do with it.”

The soldiers of the 2nd Company returned and successfully stormed the second dugout. In total, in addition to the prisoners, four invaders were killed, and two were wounded in the operation.

In September, a similar operation was conducted by the soldiers of the 12th Special Operation Brigade “Azov” of the National Guard of Ukraine.