TASS Reports Russian POW Killed by Explosive Collar After Refusing Suicide Mission

A TASS report cited Russian defense sources saying Ukrainian forces remotely detonated an explosive collar worn by a Russian prisoner of war after he refused to advance toward Russian positions as a suicide bomber. The report included drone footage and followed an interview with another Russian serviceman who said he escaped after captors attached a similar GPS-equipped device to his neck. The claims have not been independently confirmed.

TASS, citing Russian defense sources, said a captured Russian soldier was killed when a remotely triggered explosive collar detonated after he declined to move toward Russian positions as a suicide bomber. The agency also said it had drone video showing a motionless serviceman in woods with a device around his neck. A separate TASS interview described another Russian serviceman who said he was captured near the Dnipropetrovsk-Zaporizhzhia border, fitted with a GPS-equipped "shahid collar," and ordered to approach Russian lines. He claimed he warned comrades, escaped, and removed the device using sapper skills, suffering minor injuries. These accounts have not been independently verified.

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