Reconnaissance drone footage released by the Russian 76th Airborne Division captures the moment a squad-sized unit of Russian forces surrounds and captures eleven Ukrainian troops. It's unclear exactly where this footage was filmed, however the 76th Airborne Division has mostly been seen active near Robotyne after they were re-positioned from the Svatove-Kreminna region.

It is worth noting that the text at the end of the video appears to link this to a Russian campaign calling for front-line Ukrainian troops to surrender. We have no evidence of Ukrainian troops in the Robotyne area surrendering en-masse in the past few weeks, and due to the heavy nature of propaganda in this conflict we have no way of independently verifying this footage. There's a slight chance that this video was set-up specifically as part of that psychological operation, however we are not definitively saying that is the case.

If more information is published that gives us a definite answer on the legitimacy of this footage in the future, we will update this post.

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