On Thursday, Moscow accused Kyiv of sending helicopters over the border to attack a Russian village and reported that seven people were injured in the strikes. The Investigative Committee of Russia said the helicopters attacked the village of Klimovo, which is just six miles from the Ukrainian border.
“Using two military helicopters carrying heavy weaponry, Ukrainian armed forces illegally entered Russian air space,” the committee said in a statement. “Flying low, acting deliberately, they carried out at least six airstrikes on residential buildings in the settlement of Klimovo.”
At this point, Ukraine hasn’t confirmed that it carried out the strikes and had rejected Russian accusations about a cross-border attack earlier this month. On April 1, Russian authorities accused Ukraine of launching a helicopter attack on a fuel depot in Belgorod, Russia.
Ukrainian officials initially denied the Belgorod attack, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chose not to comment on the incident when asked about it in a Fox News interview. “I’m sorry. I do not discuss any of my orders as commander in chief, the leader of this state, and there are things which I only share with the military armed forces of Ukraine and when they talk with me,” he said.
The US has been sharing intelligence with Kyiv to help the Ukrainians target Russian forces inside Ukrainian territory. According to The Wall Street Journal, the US recently expanded its intelligence sharing with Ukraine, but won’t provide information that could be used to hit targets inside Russia.
In fact, I’m beginning to think that these helicopter runs into Russia are NOT Ukrainian, but CIA ops run by the US with Ukrainian choppers and mercenary pilots. A French journalist has reported that in fact US Blackwater personnel are in charge of the Ukrainian paramilitary forces. I suspect that these sorts of people are being used to try to get the war escalated by enticing Russia to hit Kiev more forcefully. As Russia has stated that any more runs into Russia might force Russia to hit Kiev, this appears to be succeeding.
Interesting theory. So if CIA flies helicopters into Russia out of Ukraine, does that mean Russia still has secure borders and theater air supremacy? Did the CIA also sink the Russian flagship in the Black Sea?
If everything is going to plan, why did Putin replace his operational commander six days ago.? Why did the Russians lose so many tanks and men before the so-called planned strategic withdrawal from Kyiv and the north? Was that really a planned campaign or a retreat? Putin is digging deeper and deeper into a swamp.
Russia would be better off if it withdrew to its own borders. War usually makes things worse.
The understanding was theatre would be limited to Ukraine. The US has twice violated it now. With each major loss the US recoups by escalating. So far it’s still to Russia’s advantage to observe the restriction, …which explains the absence of strategic bombers, … tho American style all-out war (carpet bombing, napalm, etc). is not in the Russian character.
Yes, the Ukrainians are lucky the Russian liberators have a history of making war gently. For example, consider the humane treatment of Nazi POW’s by the Russians during WWII.
The Ukrainian ancestral memory also encompasses the centuries of rapes, pogroms and pillaging by the Czars and their Cossack functionaries.
Goody Twoshoes compare to Viet Nam alone.
This is hilarious! Russia objecting to Ukraine violating its airspace!
I hope no civilians got badly hurt in the Ukrainian counter attack.
Russia needs a leadership that understands aggression leads to blowback and the strategic advantages a popular resistance has over conventional forces in asymmetric warfare.
As of 2019, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko claimed that Ukraine had developed an indigenous cruise missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers and a 150-kilogram warhead.
There’s some skepticism as to whether that development was actually successful (it was supposedly a modification of the 280-290 km Neptune), but if so, it’s plausible that Ukrainian forces could reach out and touch Russian logistics depots, troop concentrations inside Russia itself.
There haven’t been any reports of that, so it may just have been a campaign myth. Or the Ukrainian regime may be showing restraint, only hitting a few targets inside Russia with helicopters to make the Russians think about what might happen if they want to keep dicking around, and/or to remind the Russians that since they haven’t achieved air supremacy in nearly two months they aren’t likely to.
No air supremacy. Except every time a Ukrainian jet or UAW goes up, it gets shot down.
The butthurt you’re going to feel in another month or so…
Why would I be “butthurt” over something I have no particular stake in and support neither side of?
Has your agent called about that Baghdad Bob screen test yet?
What about the Muskova? Did the Russians deliberately scuttle their flagship because it was scheduled to be replaced with an upgrade as part of their planned modernization of the Black Sea fleet?
And did they change commanding generals as part of Putin’s master plan?
Everything still going according to plan?
the muskova, really ? is that soviet bucket of bolts really some kind of russian flag-ship and was it really destroyed ? or is that story just the latest chapter in the saga authored by uncle sam and published by the western medias.
Good point! And have you noticed how the MSM airbrushed out of the photos the throngs of cheering Ukrainians hailing their Russian liberators in Mariupol and Bucha?
The sinking of that ship is a clear warning that the age of the surface navy is over. I am confident that the age of a subsurface marine will soon be over too. Then it will take a century before nations will stop building new ships and submarines.
I am surprised that Russia has not defeated the Ukrainian military and achieved clear air supremacy. I expected Russia to get bogged down and defeated in Phase II – the guerrilla resistance. But the Ukrainian military seems to have mastered the principles of asymmetric warfare while the Russians are clueless.
Ukraine has been hiding its assets. Maybe it has cruise missiles. But to use them would invite escalation by a increasingly desperate Putin – who needs to achieve some military objective before a ceasefire in order to survive politically.
There is another possibility. Attacking inside Russia is a war crime. International law permits resistance but not counter-invasion. Zelenskyy wants to maintain the moral high ground. He disavowed last week’s helicopter attack and he expressed skepticism about the Azov brigade charge of chemical weapons. It may be that Zelenskyy on his own, or under orders from US/NATO wants to refrain from uncontrolled escalation while the Azov militants want to wage total war.
As an aside, success in asymmetric war depends on having strong popular support. That is why ISIS lost and the Taliban won. It appears that the Ukrainian resistance is getting very strong support from local intelligence (the “Granny spotters” ) while the Russian liberation army has been getting ambushed, misled and certainly they have not been met with cheering crowds and flowers by the Ukrainians they liberate.
The Russians are the very last people to send to de-Nazify the Ukraine. The invasion is making the Nazis bolder and stronger.
. The ancestral memories of the depredations of the Russians and their Cossack agents run deep in the Ukrainian people, including most of the Russian speakers. That is why understanding the difference between holocaust and genocide is so important now. The worst form of genocide is holocaust and genocide can lead to holocaust. Russian chauvinists like Putin, at their core, see the existence of Ukrainian nationalism as an affront to their notion of one great Russian people. In the past the Czars and the Cossacks attempted to wipe out the Ukrainian national identity, especially the Ruthenian Catholic identity.
As the Russian offensive provokes an even more intense Ukrainian national resistance, it is likely that the dehumanization of the occupied will reinforce the attitudes in Russian chauvinists that see Ukrainian national identity as illegitimate. That could lead to horrible consequences.
It is frustrating that despots like Putin continue to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.Watching this slow motion train wreck of an invasion unfold is like deja vue. So sad. War sucks.
“Attacking inside Russia is a war crime. International law permits resistance but not counter-invasion.”
You’ve said this before. What’s your source for the claim.
When all the pro-Russian commenters here still believed that the Ukraine invasion would be a cakewalk for Russian forces, one thing they enjoyed crowing about in reference to the possibility of possible NATO assistance is that Russian doctrine is “when we are attacked, we don’t just destroy the attackers, we destroy the HQ that dispatched them.”
So according to the Russians themselves, any military asset or HQ involved in the invasion of Ukraine would be a legitimate target for Ukrainian forces. Fuel depots, troop concentrations preparing to deploy into Ukraine, the Kremlin itself, you name it. If Ukrainian arms can reach it, it’s fair game.
Try article 55 of the UN charter. The people of Donask including Maripol decided that they no longer chose to be part of the Ukrainian state. This happened after a foreign power colluded to overthrow the legal government of the Ukraine. That illegal government then collaborated with Neo Nazi’s to violate the human rights of Ukrainian citizens.
After 8 years of attacks on civilian targets in the Donbas by the Ukrainian state, Russia exhausted diplomatic efforts and being a signatory after the repeated and egregious violation of the Minsk accords, Russia recognized the independence of those regions. Note that this was after a increase of artillery attacks and a massive increase by the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas.
We hear a lot about war crimes in the Ukraine. Perhaps it would be useful to examine the crimes against humanity by the Ukrainian state.
Russia has been very understanding of the foreign aggressions throughout the years.
The opposition in Mariupal must be terrorist insurgents.
Out of uniform.
Possums.
stinky greasy Nazi Possums.
Thanks for questioning my assertion. Doing a quick check, I can’t verify whether self defense encompasses military action on foreign soil. Certainly combatants generally claim that right. So I withdraw the claim.
Fair game? Are you referring to your ‘just’ war?
Gog is on our side to insure a win?
Ukraine’s cross boarder attack is like the bee stings we left on Japan with our Mitchell bombers.
It was a costly piece of winning.
“If Ukrainian arms can reach it, it’s fair game.”
What about CO2 lasers in space that can target things, is that fair usage? Technically Starlink is a private venture not a government asset. No one to go after if it is deployed and nearly undetectable. It is like a Mercenary with no sponsor: a terrorist.
But,.. once it is observed in use ( and it has) and destroys something Russian then Starwars is on.
Zelenski is never free from his Azov goons.
is he being held hostage?
Fair has left the building.
You want escalation? I ask because this will not be contained to the Ukraine or Europe, it comes home with a bullet.
What is this “just war” you speak of. I certainly don’t have any of those around the house.
“Ukraine has been hiding its assets.”
They’ve been magically replenished.
US/NATO wants to keep the war going. Sure. But without popular support and motivated fighters, weapons will not be effective. That is why the CIA failed in Cuba and Venezuela and why the well armed ARVN lost and government and warlords the US backed in Afghanistan surrendered to the Taliban. The Ukrainians have ancestral memories of oppression, subjugation, pillaging, rapes and state sponsored pogroms committed by and at the instigation of their Russian overlords and their Cossack functionaries. The oppression by Russia carried over into the forced collectivization under Stalin. The Ukrainians are fighting against their historic imperial oppressors.
As for Russia, governments always fight war for geo-political objectives. And every government that starts a war has a slogan like de-Nazification. As an anti-imperialist who believes in self-determination, I respect the right of the Ukrainian people to fight for their liberation against the Russian invaders as much as I support the right of the Crimean people to join with Russia. There will not be peace until Russia leaves Ukraine and Ukraine recognizes the accession of Crimea to Russia. As for the Donbass where less than 40% of the people are ethnic Russians, there should be a UN supervised plebisite with both Russia and Ukraine guaranteeing the rights of all ethnic groups living there.
My comment had nothing to do with anything other than where the “assets” are coming from.
do you have a short war solution using Starlink?
How come the Russian ship under tow sunk?
Pictures show no viable missile damage.
Did Starlink get used to hit Hypersonics in their tubes?
Is that the best strategy to defeat them because Starlink is not capable to otherwise target and trash?
If they catch Starlink in action then Starwars is on: A No fly zone extends to space.
Christiane wants your interview.
call her
It’s not a war btw Ukraine and Russia, but US and Russia. And while the fiction is useful to both sides, Russia is happy to observe it; but, when She starts winning, the US drops the fiction and escalates, causing Russia to follow suite.
The raid was guided by US data. And likely even flown by US special ops. It was intended as a warning.
yes and most likely using US equipment
The Belgorod attack was by US-NATO Pilots and these are too.
Where is your source for this claim?
Conventional sources are all instrumentalized. Process of deduction is the only analytical resource. The loss of Mariupol was a major defeat of the elite Nazi army, devastating to regime morale. In order to recoup they (1) bluster in re the Moskova, and (2) do a bold terror attack inside Russia, … though lacking technical capacity for either.
So by utilizing your deduction analogy, Russia has been conducting major terror attacks inside Ukraine since 24 February. Good, im glad we can agree on that.
It is past time to target Zelensky and his band of fascist clowns before they foment a wider conflict with the world. These adolescent lord of the flies puppets will fight to the last Ukrainian as long as nations keep feeding them weapons.
The world has become a much more dangerous place since Zelensky has been wagging the dog for Biden. Feeding his ego with massive shipments of weapons is like giving a child a handgun to resolve a dispute with an adult.
Biden and Blinkey have shown that they are not capable of diplomacy or leading their puppet to a diplomatic solution to this mess.
How dare you Ukraine, invading my airspace and launching an attack on my infrastructure with two helicopters after I occupied your country with over 190K troops and leveled your cities with thousands of missiles from air, land, and sea. This is an escalation of war and we condemn this attack.
Just say “NO”
TO Nazis.
Did you know there are exponentially far more Nazi Groups in Russian than in Ukraine? Russia needs to clean up his house first.
Yes, they’re a fractional constant in every population; but, HQ is in Washington.
lol.
Do you see how NAZI apologists are trying to sell us this stuff?
One thing I do know and that was that Bibi did not like the cartel brand wokeness framed in Covey’s LDS word “Proactive”. He hates that word with a passion like I have never seen before outside of his response to real and determinate threats!
oh?
so we as NATO with LESSER NAZIS and diverse tolerance for our own should kill the Russians with more?
Sounds
like
a
reason
to
unload.
Wow.
a big fat claim that Russia has more NAZIS than anyone else.
dude, Russian WWII memorials still have relevance: They still hate ALL NAZIS.
THEY CELEBRATE KILLING THEM ANNUALLY. This defensive action is to rid Ukraine of Nazis that surround Zelenski the toy sock puppet of the Azov Battalion. He’s in house arrest.
your spin is really weak but I am absolutely sure beyond a shadow of doubt that the desired culling of ALL NAZIS EVERYWHERE will be thoroughly performed.
It is Written
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out
I can’t help but think if Iraq had been able to attack our homeland somehow while we were laying waste to their country(either time) and what our reaction would have been. Parking lot available. Big one.
I don’t know if they are playing the wounded bear or they have no control over their airspace where heavily armed helicopters are able to sneak in.
endless provocation. russia will not be forced .