Reported earlier. The Soviet flags didn't work:
Russian Marines Flying Soviet Flags Paraded Right Into A Ukrainian Minefield In Kursk. Drones Finished Them Off.
Russian efforts to recapture Kursk Oblast are faltering.
David Axe | Feb 16, 2025 | 03:22pm EST
47th Mechanized Brigade captureConfidently rolling toward Ukrainian lines in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in up-armored vehicles brazenly flying the flag of the defunct Soviet Union, an assault group from the Russian 155th Naval Infantry Brigade paraded right into a minefield laid by the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade.
The results were predictable—and emblematic of Russia’s faltering counteroffensive in Kursk. The counteroffensive ramped up in early November, three months after a strong Ukrainian force invaded Kursk and carved what is now a 250-square-mile salient from the oblast.
“The Russians again went on an assault in Kursk against the 47th Brigade and its auxiliaries,” the brigade reported. “In a column of more than a dozen tanks and about a company of enemies”—around 100 troops—“they threw the ‘elite’ Russian 155th Marine Brigade with the flags of ‘victory’ into the assault.”
Mines blew up some of the Russian vehicles. Drones struck others and also hounded the dismounted infantry. One shell-shocked Russian crewman bailed out of his damaged vehicle, trudged a few steps through the snow, fell flat onto his back—and then exploded as a drone slammed into him.
“We are extinguishing all the enemy’s attempts to advance in Kursk,” the 47th Mechanized Brigade crowed.
It’s not for no reason Ukrainian forces take such glee in killing 155th Naval Infantry Brigade marines. On Oct. 13, the Russian brigade captured, stripped and executed nine Ukrainian drone operators in Kursk—a war crime that signaled escalating Russian brutality as the wider war on Ukraine ground toward its fourth year.
The 47th Mechanized Brigade has defeated at least two major Russian and North Korean assaults this month. . . .
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/16/russian-marines-flying-soviet-flags-paraded-right-into-a-ukrainian-minefield-in-kursk-drones-finished-them-off/