Russian officials said Monday that a Ukrainian sabotage group launched a cross-border raid in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, and the governor of the region said eight people were injured.
According to Ukrainian officials and media outlets, the attack was carried out by Russian citizens who have volunteered to fight for Kyiv, groups known as the Freedom of Russia Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps.
Both groups claimed on Telegram that they “liberated” a settlement inside Russia. According to Russia’s TASS news agency, the “Russian military and security forces are taking measures to eliminate the enemy and are driving it away from the Russian territory.” The Kremlin said the attack was launched to distract from Ukraine’s loss of Bakhmut.
According to The Times of London, documents that surfaced on Discord, allegedly leaked by US Airman Jack Teixeira, showed that Ukraine had been planning to support Russian volunteer attacks on Russian territory and that the groups are armed with NATO equipment.
“Ukraine provides comprehensive support to Russian volunteers ready to liberate Russian territories from President Putin’s tyranny by armed means. Such detachments are equipped with various qualitative types of NATO weapons; the personnel has passed respective training for usage of such weapons and has successful combat experience from various parts of the front line in Ukraine,” a document read, according to the Times.
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Discord leaks show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed cross-border attacks inside Russia to seize villages during conversations in January, but it didn’t say he planned on using Russian volunteers.
A Ukrainian military intelligence spokesman told CNN that the Russian volunteers were part of the Ukrainian armed forces while they were in Ukraine but claimed they were acting independently in the raid. But the assault coincided with the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, releasing a video calling on Russian soldiers to surrender.
The Russian Volunteer Corps had previously taken credit for a cross-border attack in Russia’s Bryansk region that took place in March. The Russian Volunteer Corps is made up of Russian citizens who enlisted to fight for Ukraine in 2014 and includes veterans of the Azov Battalion. According to UnHerd, elements of the group are “overtly sympathetic to neo-Nazi ideology and praise Hitler on Telegram.” According to Financial Times, the group’s founder, Denis Nikitin, is considered an extremist and has “ties to neo-Nazis and white nationalists across the Western world.”
The desperation is seeping in. The pendulum is swinging ever closer. I suppose if you know the end is nye, you’ll try anything at this point. Truly a sad state of affair.
Dangerous.
So Belgorod is getting liberated. Amazing, Putin’s getting a dose of his own medicine.
Perhaps a referendum that will definitely have the majority voting in favor of being annexed into Ukraine. This will stop the abuse and harassment of Ukrainian speaking citizens in Belgorod and will also provide Ukraine with a buffer zone.
Sounds familiar?
Apparently you can buy tanks at any military supply store. This is just a private effort, a mere coinicendence.
I’ve always wondered how much the surplus tanks cost. Someone a few miles down the road from me has an old Sherman or something parked in front of its house. It looks like he occasionally moves it, so I guess it still has a working motor, tracks, etc. He’s also go an old “6-by” army truck. Not sure who he’s planning to go to war with.
Maybe you? lol
… the abuse and harassment of Ukrainian speaking citizens in Belgorod…
sounds familiar?
i’ll be damned but that does sound familiar =
9 years ago the Uke govt abused and harassed the Russian speaking citizens of Crimea – hold on a minute, ….. the Uke govt was actually bombing Crimea with actual bombs. and nobody said BOO except for Russia who decided to repel the Uke ‘good samaritans’.
it took Russia all of a week to put a stop to the Uke menace.
Yep, that’s what the Kremlin sold to their brainwashed followers
Twice, Putin refused to allow Oblast to secede from Ukraine to Russia. Twice. Then, when the Kiev troops masses to launch an attack, Putin finally ordered the incursion. Prior to that, Kiev had pounded the East of Ukraine for 8 years, killing 14,000.
“Prior to that, Kiev, separatist forces, and Russian forces had pounded the seceded republics for 8 years, killing 14,000.”
Fixed, no charge.
Armed by NATO with borrowed US money. Balance the budget.
The debt ceiling puts a limit on US terrorism. American citizens have borrowed trillions of dollars to fund the killing of 4,5 million people since 911. It’s time to stop. The US is going broke. Balance the budget.
Based on my limited brain faculties, Biden is more likely to cut Social Security and Medicare, blame it on the Republicans, then send more money to Ukraine.
When the level of involvement with taxpayers by government drops too low, the federal government will evaporate like a bubble on a hot day.
I cannot disagree. I voted to get Trump out of D.C. In return I get………what. If he does anything to the programs, the votes for him will evaporate. I am a senior, as senior as they come at 79. I have a mantra that has been with me many years – don’t f*ck with my money! My wife and I paid into the programs all of our working lives. Thank the heavens for them. If he does anything to them, anything, he will lose our votes.
“”American citizens have borrowed trillions of dollars to fund ….””
no we haven’t. but somebody has done so in our name and without our blessing.
don’t blame me or my parents or my children or my neighbors or anyone else that it would only take me 30 seconds to think of.
yall boys are lucky… that i don’t have a rocket launcher …
i would truly make somebody pay. i would not hesitate.
Do you have a song for what Russia is doing in Ukraine?
Do you have a song for what we have done since 9/11?
It was BEFORE 9-11 when Maddie Albright said 500,000 dead Iraqi kids was “worth it”.
“Ukraine-Backed Saboteurs Launch Cross-Border Raid in Russia’s Belgorod Region”
Not enough body part remain to sort out which arms and legs go with which bodies. Delightful !!!
https://www.rt.com/russia/576759-ukraine-resorting-terrorism-artyomovsk-defeat/
Almost a joke, this attack exposes the utter bankruptcy of the welfare war on the best armed state on the planet. Almost makes one sorry for the feckless clowns who thought they’d break the historic resolved and potency of the Russian people. If there is any sorrow we should feel it is for the average Ukrainian citizen being sacrificed and impoverished by the Neocon cabal in Washington to weaken and humiliate Russia, as Loyd Austin blurted out in a moment of unwise candor. It is easy for all the world to see just who is being weakened, and it isn’t Russia!!!!
Nazis and terrorists are types Washington supports all over the world. However, Biden surely can’t tolerate the idea of supporting “white supremacists”??
This will toughen Russian resolve.
What a joke the entire Western establishment is. Now glorifying Nazi “liberators” of Russia! Whatever works.
US “project Ukraine” that is 100% neocon obsession, has been allowed to take over reigns of both parties, and have in Biden a very usefull and very blackmailable President in all issues Ukraine. Lof course these are Ukrainian specisl ops, trained and equiped by NATO. Would not be shocked that their plans are made in the West.
CNN chinmed in describing Moscow’s reaction as “anger and confusion”. Daily reporting nonsense from Russia and about Russia. Pure fantasy, or slin as it is rather clear that CNN cannot possibly have a reliable and verified source of information to make spacious claims.
“What a joke the entire Western establishment is. Now glorifying Nazi “liberators” of Russia! Whatever works“
I think they are glorifying those liberating Russia from its Kremlin Nazi captors.🤷🏽♂️
This makes me think of how the US or UK would react to such an event.
They’d lose their minds. See 9/11.
Ukraine-Backed Saboteurs Launch Cross-Border Raid in Russia’s Belgorod Region
amazing that i am privy to this info all the way over here in Los Angeles.
thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet!
Are you really in LA,? You sound more like you are in St Pete.
You really need to consider a career in comedy……………
really Julio, an ad-hominem attack
The narrative of the attackers being “freedom fighters” got destroyed by the presence of NATO armored vehicles.
The US just got caught in a major lie. The US is also considered at fault for launching a military attack on Russian territory.
This is a huge escalation that will hugely backfire against the US.
Tell that to yourself, it’ll make you feel better.
“equipped with various qualitative types of NATO weapons” ~ I guess we all have our ways to cope with loss of agency in anything that matters.
Is it a bit funny how the British MSM is on the Ukraine war like a dog on a bone? Day and night. They’re on it, boy. You know what I mean? They’re chewing that bone and licking it to death. Am I the only one left scratching his head? Are they that desperate to get the first nuclear bomb on top of London? Wow. The British put the word “warmonger” in warmongering. (Sarcasm alert)
This latest NATO/Ukraine PR exercise lasted just 24 hours and ended with the Russians obliterating more than 70 Ukrainians and all equipment destroyed. Another fiasco that achieves absolutely nothing.
What do you think it was INTENDED to achieve?
It presumably drew some additional Russian troops and arms to the area, making them unavailable elsewhere.
It conveyed the message to Russian officers, officials, and residents: You’re not safe from this war. It comes to you, too.
It conveyed the message to foreign onlookers: Ukraine is still strong enough to strike inside Russia.
Whether those results were worth whatever was invested in the operation is a different question, of course.
Except it didn’t achieve any of the things you listed. All it did in Russia was solidify support for Putin and the war.
Perhaps the intention was a PR exercise for those in the West who somehow still believe that the Ukrainians have a chance. I guess it failed on that count as well.