A Ukrainian secret services officer infiltrated a Russian army recruitment drive at a university, warning students they face certain death if they go to war. The masked intelligence agent posed as a Russian soldier and was allowed virtually into a meeting of hundreds of would-be recruits at Kuban State Agrarian University in Krasnodar.
Such sessions are held at universities across Russia to encourage students to sign army contracts, as Moscow seeks to boost frontline numbers amid heavy losses. Ukrainian authorities report that Russian forces are losing at least thousands of men each month.
Footage shows the man speaking via live link, telling students: 'I am in fact a soldier, just not Russian, but Ukrainian. And I want to tell you, God forbid you go there. I will have to kill you, every one of you who signs this contract.' University officials scrambled to cut the link but only did so after the officer warned: 'Your faces are all [recorded], just like the rector's.' He also claimed to have identified the Russian soldier leading the session.
The officer told the group how Russian commanders extort money from soldiers. 'The frontline hasn't moved for four years, and it's standing still,' he said, referring to Russia's failure in the war. He described Putin's invasion as creating 'a cemetery the size of two countries' and added: 'Everyone who comes onto Ukrainian soil, we will kill them all.'
War Update
It has been four years since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conflict has inflicted heavy casualties on both sides, and as Europe's biggest war enters its fifth year, no peace deal is in sight despite US diplomatic efforts.
Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine on Sunday. A 'massive' nighttime drone attack on Chernihiv killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded four others, according to local officials. Rescuers found the teenager's body under rubble, and several houses were set on fire. In Kherson, a man died after a drone hit a van, and another was hospitalized with blast injuries.
Ukraine's air force reported that Russia launched 236 drones overnight, of which 203 were shot down and 32 hit targets in 18 locations. Meanwhile, Ukraine struck a drone factory in Taganrog, southwestern Russia, using domestically manufactured Neptune cruise missiles. The General Staff said the attack sparked a fire at the Atlant Aero factory, which designs and produces strike and reconnaissance drones and components for heavier UAVs carrying guided bombs up to 250 kilograms. Images showed a huge cloud of smoke over the city.
