A series of explosions were reported in several Russian provinces bordering Ukraine early Wednesday, and a fire broke out at an ammunition depot in the city of Belgorod, which is about 20 miles north of the Ukrainian border.
Blasts were also reported in the provinces of Kursk and Voronezh in the latest suspected Ukrainian attacks inside Russian territory.
On Monday, Ukraine reportedly launched strikes on two oil depots in the Russian city of Bryansk, which is about 70 miles from Ukraine’s border, deeper inside Russian territory than other reported Ukrainian attacks. Russian media reported major fires in Bryansk at a military facility holding 10,000 tons of fuel, and a second fire at a military fuel depot holding 5,000 tons.
A source told Middle East Eye that the Ukrainians are believed to have used a Turkish-made TB2 Bayraktar drone in the Bryansk attack. While Ankara hasn’t been nearly as hawkish towards Russia as other NATO members in the current conflict, Ukraine has purchased military equipment from Turkey for years.
Since 2019, Ukraine has bought dozens of Bayraktar drones from Turkey. The first reported use of the drones by Kyiv happened in October 2021, when Ukraine targeted a mobile artillery unit in the eastern Donbas region.
Ukraine hasn’t taken responsibility for attacks inside Russia, but Ukrainian officials have hinted at involvement. Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said Wednesday that “when you massively attack another country … then sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid.”
The reported Ukrainian attacks inside Russia come as the US and its European allies are flooding weapons into Ukraine and are encouraging Kyiv to strike inside Russian territory. On Tuesday, the UK’s armed services minister said it was “completely legitimate” for Ukraine to be hitting targets inside Russia to disrupt logistics and added that it was “not necessarily a problem” if the Ukrainians carried out such attacks using weapons provided by London.
Britain has joined the war. Russia then announced the investigation of at least two British SAS special ops groups in Lvov.
Russia’s state investigative body issued a stark warning that it was looking into media reports alleging “sabotage experts” from Britain’s special forces had been deployed to western Ukraine. On Saturday, a defense source told RIA Novosti that at least two teams from the UK’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) forces arrived at a military base near the city of Lviv in western Ukraine.
We will soon see these “royal” bstards fried too crisp in a Kalibr attack or paraded before the cameras awaiting trial which is the best they can hope for. There will be no POW status for them so probably a death sentence in the end or shot on the spot.
Btw. Watch the smile of this “cossackgundy” character being wiped off his face when he gets his sentence…
The Bastard Brits still can’t get over losing their brutal empire…
They may have lost their empire but they have not lost their imperial attitude…
It is a long way from Lvov to any front. Unless thry plan to govto Odessa where a dozen foreign ships have been forcced to stay, while crews were shipped home, first overland to Poland.
It would be sasy to blow up ships and claim Russia did it.
So Austin believes that Russia is bluffing when they warn against nuclear war.
The Biden administration is playing poker with the fate of the world for the sake of greed. Its aims are to weaken Russia, whatever that means, for the sake of controlling the world. The Russians are fighting an existential thread; after all, they are fighting a war on their border, not an imaginary enemy like ISIS , 10,000 miles away.
So what are the odds that Russia is bluffing when they go all in and Biden calls their bet? Not very high.
What do we win if Austin is right? More wars and eventually, no matter how you dissect the situation, no matter how many permutations or combinations you calculate, a guaranteed nuclear war.
They are gambling with humanity for the sake of gambling.
Not worried about Russia’s thousands upon thousands of real nukes but very concerned about Iran’s imaginary one. And I do mean one, since Jen (buy me a vowel) Psaki just pointed out, with much concern, that they are “weeks” away from having ONE.
Very well said!… It’s a damned (and deadly) addiction…!!!
The irony of this situation is that this conflict would not have occurred if NATO had been dissolved at the time the USSR collapsed. Furthermore the mere existence of NATO is emboldening certain countries to keep pushing the envelope at the expense of other more rational elements in NATO.
NATO has been waging a cold war against Russia ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. The US planned and provoked the current war in Ukraine. But that does not justify Putin choosing to launch a war of aggression against Ukraine. Russia can’t win this asymmetric war. But it will take Russians some time to realize that they have been defeated. Same as the US and USSR killing hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq until the great powers realized they had been defeated by national resistance movements. The victory in asymmetric war goes to the side that has popular support, not the side that has the strongest military. Leaders of great powers never seem to understand that. Tactics like leveling Mariupol, killing thousands of Russian speaking Ukrainians, destroying their homes and their livelihoods have doomed any chance of the Russian invasion succeeding. Unlike the wars, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam, this war is on Russia’s border and will inevitably spread to Russian territory. With over two million Ukrainians living in Russia, the guerrilla war will get very ugly until Russia withdraws from the Donbass.
Stopping the bloodshed is simple – neutrality and implement UNSC 2202.
However, The war party wants to escalate this big time. They haven’t learned from 30 years a serial failure.
Make no mistake – our NATO forces are already fully engaged in fighting the Russians and their Ukrainian Allies.
The war party will expand this into a multi year multi front global war.
NATO isn’t involved which is why there is still a war.
Yku mean like the one in Afghanistan?
Russia may not neecmd this mych time.
Except the suffering, it’s entirely a US imperial war. Ukraine’s military after the US coup in 2014 was created by Washington. It’s funding, arming, and guidance is all from the imperial capital, …right up to this latest ordering strikes into Russian territory and supplying the co-ordinates.
John:
It is this kind of limited thinking that earns you friends named ‘Lemony Alpaca’….
When is the last time the Pentagon won a war ?
Grenada doesn‘t count
Gulf war 1. The Pentagon is great at smashing, so Afghanistan Taliban were booted from power in a few weeks, Iraq 2 Saddam was out of power in a few months, Libya Ghadaffi was quickly killed.. What comes after that is the problem. Do you honestly suppose the Russian military will be any better?
If the US-West/NATO isn’t a bit more discerning we are going to find our a–es in a nuclear war….
I hope Russia doesn’t make an example out of Ukraine for the rest of Europe.
They have already made an example of Ukraine showing the ruthlessness and ineptitude of the Russian military.
No I mean dropping small nukes to create one of the worst humanitarian crisis.
This aggressiveness is going to continue under the arrogant presumption that Russia ***won’t dare*** to strike back. I think the arrogance and presumption are dangerous and frankly not valid. Russia will put up with this just so long, and then they will make an example of someone. A response that will require very careful calibration
The Chinese expression re making an example of someone:
“Strangle the chicken to frighten the monkey.”
So I wonder, who will be “the chicken”?
Romania?, massing forces in Moldova — not a NATO member — and in Moldovan uniforms for an assault on Transnistria? Poland, as the arms transfer facilitator? Turkey’s Bayracter drone factory? British SAS headquarters with an unannounced visit from Mr. Kinzal? Or a multi-missile decapitation strike against the as-yet-untouched Ukrainian leadership and SBU?
Interesting times.
By the way, if you want to see the reality and brutality of this war, if you want to see what YouTube and the MSM won’t ever show you, here it is, via Bitchute, very ugly stuff:
(From The Saker website, April, 26th: http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-15/)
Warning graphic (18+). These are the types of massive losses the AFU is taking just in the past day or two alone:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cvAGUfIjkYUr/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/lshhfsDeFKkF/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MVlToI1D3Hnt/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/N6BpDFFW2Blt/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/j5UNcl5jU5yA/
I will understand completely if Thomas finds it necessary to cancel this, it’s beyond ugly.