The pair are part of a small team of soldiers on a grey pickup truck on the Ukrainian side of a border crossing point into the Kursk region of Russia.
A third serviceman, who gives his name as Vasil, says the unit has been fighting in Russia since the beginning of the cross-border attack from Sumy region, in northeastern Ukraine, nine days ago.
He says the Russian soldiers they had encountered were just “running away”.
Image: One of the Ukrainian soldiers we met said the Russians they had encountered were ‘running away’
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Ukrainian military deliver aid to Kursk region.
Asked what his group is planning to do next, he says, speaking in English: “[I] think go further [in], yes.”
As for whether he is scared, he says: “No.”
It is the same reply when asked whether he thinks Vladimir Putin’s forces will succeed in pushing the Ukrainian attackers out.
“No,” he says.
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Speaking with the measured, matter-of-fact tone of an experienced soldier – he has been fighting Russia’s invasion of his country since 2014 – Vasil says being part of the force invading Russia is “nothing special… I’m doing my job”.
Without giving much away, he says his unit was involved in monitoring.
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