A week after a revenge mission targeting war criminals in the Russian 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, a quartet of Ukrainian formations — the 36th Marine Brigade, the 47th Mechanized Brigade, and the 82nd and 95th Air Assault Brigades — turned a short stretch of highway into Kursk from Russia. Oblast in a “road of death”, conformable Anton Gerashchenko, former adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

On October 10, Russian Marines from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade overtook a team of Ukrainian drone operators in Zelenyi Shlyakh, a small hamlet on the western edge of a Ukrainian-held salient in Kursk. The Russians stripped the Ukrainians, ordered them to lie face down on the ground, and then they shot themkilling all of us.

In the days that followed, a strong Ukrainian force began to deliberately hunt down and ambush groups of sailors from the 155th Marine Infantry Brigade – and take no prisoners. On October 18, paratroopers of the 95th Air Assault Brigade cornered a group of armored personnel carriers of the 155th Marine Infantry Brigade and dismantled it with drones, tanks, missiles and mineswhich allegedly destroyed three APCs and killed 30 Russians. “Enemy’s teleportation to Hell took place in a complex manner,” Ukrainian Air Assault Branch praised.

The Ukrainian revenge mission has escalated over the past week. The Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade, fresh from a six-week period of rest and retraining, attacked the Russian marines in Novoivanovka, a few hundred meters north of Zelenyi Shlyakh. Team Fight, 47th Mechanized Brigade M-1 tanks and M-2 fighting vehicles peppered the Russian positions with their 120-millimeter guns and 25-millimeter autocannons.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian sailors attacked from the southcharging into Zelenyi Shlyakh in a long column of T-64 tanks and M-113 APCs – and blowing up Russian vehicles as they moved. Ukrainian paratroopers attacked from the west, killing seven weeks of the 155th Marine Infantry Brigade who were laying mines along one of the roads through Zelenyi Shlyakh.

The result, two weeks after Russian sailors killed the nine Ukrainian drone operators, is “a graveyard of destroyed Russian equipment worth tens of millions of dollars” on the main road through Zelenyi Shlyakh, according to Gherashchenko. Analysts observed at least 17 destroyed Russian armored trucks, APCs and tanks in and around Zelenyi Shlyakh.

The avenging Ukrainians don’t seem to have lost any armored vehicles in their recent counterattacks, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t taking casualties. A team of nine Marines from the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade went overboard on Sunday west of Zelenyi Shlyakh and had to call in artillery fire. on their own position “Miraculously, all nine survived, managed to escape and even evacuated the wounded along the way,” Estonian analyst WarTranslated RECORDED.

As punishment for its war crimes, the 155th Marine Infantry Brigade is destroyed by a highly motivated Ukrainian force. But help is coming for the beleaguered sailors and other Russian troops in Kursk. The first of potentially thousands of North Korean reinforcements are expected to arrive in the region any day now.