Ukraine's 225th Separate Assault Regiment says it cleared Russian infiltration groups from five Zaporizhzhia Oblast villages and captured 64 enemy soldiers.
Ukraine's 225th Separate Assault Regiment says it has finished an operation clearing enemy infiltration groups from five villages in Zaporizhzhia Oblast — Ternuvate, Kosivtseve, Rizdvianka, Verkhnia Tersa, and Vozdvyzhivka. According to the regiment's own account, the operation ended with 64 Russian soldiers taken prisoner. Volunteers Support Ukraine is sharing this story precisely because, amid the daily toll of losses and destruction, it offers a rare chance to say that the defense on this stretch of the front is holding, and that the enemy's plan fell apart.
Per the 225th Regiment's account, the occupier's groups were ordered to slip behind Ukrainian positions undetected without engaging in combat — to hunt down Ukrainian drone crews, gather intelligence, and plant Russian flags in villages for staged propaganda footage meant to portray those settlements as captured. Instead, the regiment's troops found and detained 64 of them. Footage of the captives has circulated publicly — the Kyiv Independent notes it could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage or the regiment's claims, so we are presenting this as the unit's own account rather than an independently confirmed fact.
Small dismounted groups trying to slip into the Ukrainian rear around fortified positions have become a recurring feature of the fighting on the Zaporizhzhia axis throughout 2026. It's a costly, high-risk tactic for the occupier: no fire support, and little chance of rescue if spotted. An entire 64-strong group ending up in captivity rather than simply vanishing into the tree lines is an unusually verifiable outcome for an operation of this kind.
Similar infiltration attempts have been documented on the Zaporizhzhia axis before — in spring 2026, soldiers of the 65th Brigade recorded a case of a Russian assault group trying to cover more than 13 kilometers inside a meter-wide gas pipeline to slip behind Ukrainian lines undetected. Every such group that ends up captured or destroyed confirms the same thing: these gambles by the occupation command cost it manpower it cannot quickly replace.
Stories like this are a good reminder: NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine helps people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow, and believes it's exactly this resilience — at the front and behind it — that brings closer the day such help is no longer needed.
