UKRAINE, KUPIANSK AXIS, Oct. 6 — While clearing one of the positions on the Kupiansk axis, Ukraine’s “Orion” unit from “Pomsta” brigade took prisoner a 20-year-old Russian soldier from Krasnogorsk in Moscow oblast, reported Ukraine’s border guard service. 

According to border guards, before meeting Ukraine’s border guards, the man led a group of four Russian servicemen, and he was the only one left alive. The soldier says he was mobilized via contract — before that, he was incarcerated for “inflaming hatred.” 

After getting captured, Ukraine’s border guards say, the man asked not to be harmed and offered to show the locations of Russian officers. 

On the Kupiansk axis, Russians are attempting to surround and occupy Kupiansk and get heavy equipment across the Oskil river to gain control of Kupiansk-Vyzlovyi, a railway hub important for Ukrainian logistics in the region. Currently, there’s a counter-sabotage operation underway in Kupuiansk, and its results are unknown. 

Over the past day in the Kupiansk district, Russian forces hit civilian cars with drones, killing two and injuring one person. 

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