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Russia confirms six Belarusian soldiers fighting for Ukraine captured or killed in Luhansk

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At least six Belarusian soldierswho volunteered to fight for Ukraine against the Russian invasion Wednesday after disappearing in Luhansk at the end of last month. It was confirmed that he was captured or killed. 

Soldiers of the Kastushkarinoski Regiment, who swore loyalty to theUkrainian armyin March, made a fatal exchange with the Russian convoy on June 26. It is reported that he went. 

Half of the battalion was able to escape the shootout, but the other half was left to stop theRussian army, Belarusian news agency Nasha Niva said. First reported. 

Servicemen of Ukrainian Military Forces walk in the small town of Sievierodonetsk, Lugansk Oblast, Feb. 27, 2022. 

Ukrainian soldiers are small in Severodonetsk Town, Lugansk, February 27, 2022.  (Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian troops invaded Belarus by July Various reports said Wednesday in the exchange of videos posted by the Belarus telegram account.

After passing the callsign "Brest", Marchuk was a leader in the recruitment of approximately500 powerful volunteersBelarusian combat forces.

Brest was reportedly seriously injured on one leg and head when fighting to cover the other retreating forces from his regiment. 

A Ukrainian serviceman smokes at a position on the front line with Russian-backed separatists near the settlement of Troitske in the Lugansk region on Feb. 22, 2022.

Ukrainian military personnel February 2022 On the 22nd, the front line with Russian-backed separatists near the settlement of Troitsuke in the Lugansk region.(Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images)

Zelensky says Belarus' involvement in the war with Russia can be avoided There are

The whereabouts of five other Belarusian soldiers engaged in the exchange, a video posted by at least one soldier on a Russian Telegram account on Tuesday. 

Post claimed that he was not the only soldier captured.

"He is officially a prisoner of war because our soldiers are contract army soldiers, not mercenaries," Kastushkarinoski Regiment said to this. It is reported that he said in response.

Belarusian press reported that the potential capture of at least one dead and five other regimental soldiers was the largest loss the Belarusian volunteer group suffered in the recent war with Russia. Said that.

A Ukrainian serviceman after a strike on a warehouse on the outskirts of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas June 17, 2022.

Ukrainian soldiers June 17, 2022, Donbus The suburbs of Lysychans'k in the eastern part of Ukraine.(ArisMessinis / AFP via GettyImages)

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Members of the Kastus Karinouski Regiment, named after the Belarusian revolutionary who led the uprising against the Russian occupation in the 1860s, alsoMoscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2014. 

Fox News was unable to immediately contact the Kastus Karinouski Federation for comment.  

Caitlin McFall is a FoxNews Digital reporter. She can contact her on Twitter at caitlin.mcfall@fox.com or @ctlnmcfall.