Russia’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday said that it defeated a Ukrainian sabotage group that launched a cross-border raid in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast on Monday.
According to Russia’s TASS news agency, the Russian military “blocked and wiped out Ukrainian nationalist formations in the Belgorod Region during a counterterror operation” and killed over “70 Ukrainian terrorists.”
According to Belgorod’s governor, at least 12 people were wounded in the cross-border attack. Russian officials say the sabotage group launched mortar and artillery fire on residential areas and announced a “terrorism probe” into the operation.
While Ukraine’s military intelligence strongly hinted it was behind the attack, Kyiv has not officially taken credit. They say the attack was launched by Russian citizens who volunteered to fight for Kyiv, groups known as the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RSV).
Both groups are part of Ukraine’s armed forces, but Kyiv claimed they were operating independently in their attack on Russia. The RSV has members who are veterans of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion and are open neo-Nazis. The group’s founder, Denis Nikitin, is a notorious extremist with ties to neo-Nazi groups across the Western world.
According to The Times of London, Discord leaks show that Ukraine had been planning attacks on Russian territory using Russian volunteer groups for some time. One document said the Russian citizens fighting for Ukraine are armed with “various qualitative types of NATO weapons.”
Defeating them was never the issue. But can Russia handle more of these types of attacks in the near future? Does Russia needs to create a second line behind the main just in case?
Good question. We will find out. My take was this was a media distraction from Bakhmut–not for a legitimate military objective. It was a suicidal kamikaze attack. It seems Ukraine may have more suicidal soldiers on their hands than they need. I’m really trying to understand why they’re suiciding themselves for NATO? They want to live under the oppression inflicted on the rest of Europe by a non-elected
UrsulaPustula von der Leyen? …Wait! Is that why they’re happily committing mass suicide? (Sarcasm)CNN is getting desparate. “Anti-Putin Russia: goal is to liberate the entire Russia”. A group of “Russians” consisting of Azov brigades? These sre scenarios from Wag the Dog. Fantasies. They really believe, this stunt can suceed. Or put better — do not believe — that Russians are united on the issue of NATO’s attempt to destroy its economy, create political turmoil and break up the country.
Still believing that the world is in awe at CNN narrative, that they have the power to shape the global opinion. As such fantasies serve no domestic purpose. Or is this type of “counteroffensive” meant to encourage the voter to keep on funding Ukraine?
It, however, sounds desperate.
You watched CNN???
My condolences. It sounds worse than I remember.
Sponsoring such attacks is an act of war, just as the Bay of Pigs was an act of war.
The real issue is that at some point, those so provoked finally will be provoked to respond.
That is why they do it, too, they know that. Provocation is their purpose.
The danger to us, the issue, is that they may succeed in their purpose of dragging us to war.
Well, yes, it’s an “act of war.”
But Ukraine and Russia have been openly at war for 15 months now, and effectively at war since 2014, so it’s unsurprising that there would be “acts of war” involved.
If having some US-made equipment constitutes US “sponsorship,” that makes Russia the “sponsor” of every use of an AK-47, anywhere, ever, by anyone. Which hardly seems a sensible definition of “sponsorship.”
I said “sponsoring them.” Ukraine did it. The US sponsored it.
I meant the US committed an act of war against Russia, just like its Bay of Pigs fiasco. My concern is that at some point the Russians will stop pretending it is not so.
No need for “concern.” The Russians have been whining “ACT OF WAR! PROVOCATION! RED LINE!” every five minutes for the last year, every time some lieutenant colonel in the bowels of the Pentagon breaks wind after a heavy lunch. Apparently they think the whining serves to distract from their 15-month record of fiasco.
Why can’t Russia give up Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk?
Historically, they belong to Ukraine and now Ukrainian citizens there are treated like third class citizens.
Sounds familiar?
Anyways, i think we now know how the Ukraine counter offensive will start. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6e525e4c1d6d58801cf7b4b661b606d2459ab02fdafafcaf22da10c19abdbbb.jpg