While the announced Ukrainian spring offensive to liberate the country from the Russian occupiers is still a long time coming, events in the Russian border region of Belgorod escalated on Monday. Fighting apparently broke out between two sabotage teams infiltrated from Ukraine and Russian security forces.
Since the morning hours, there have been reports on social media that places near the border are being shelled. Shots were also fired at the border crossing, police said. Footage was also posted of a tank passing through a Russian checkpoint. The responsible governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, had initially dismissed this as a “disinformation campaign” and “scare-mongering”.
Kremlin: battle against sabotage team
However, a little later it was said: “A spy and sabotage squad has entered the territory of the district of Graivoron”. The Kremlin has now also confirmed the information. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the “sabotage squad” was fought.
Kiev also reported fighting in Belgorod. The “Russian Volunteer Corps” and “Legion Freedom of Russia” units, made up exclusively of Russian citizens, had “started an operation to liberate the Belgorod region from the so-called Putin regime,” said military intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov on Ukrainian television.
Russia will soon be liberated
In a video purportedly by the Russian Volunteer Corps, a group of armed and masked men can be seen claiming: “Fighters of the ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’ have crossed the Russian border again. Russia will soon be liberated.” Mykhailo Podoliak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressed that Kiev had nothing to do with Belgorod’s operations, they are Russian citizens.
Source: Krone
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