2023-05-24 03:28:23
On Monday, fighters who entered Russia from Ukraine attacked several localities in the Belgorod region, which also came under artillery fire and drone attacks that forced residents to flee.
The Kremlin has expressed its deep concern
and called to do plus d’efforts
to prevent these incursions, in the midst of an increase in attacks on Russian soil in recent months, which have raised questions about the strength of Moscow’s defenses.
The Russian Ministry of Defense assured Tuesday that it had repelled this incursion after an operation of unprecedented scale, which notably mobilized aviation and artillery.
« The nationalist formations were blocked and crushed. »
The rest of the nationalists were pushed back to the territory of Ukraine, where the strikes […] continued until their total elimination
the ministry said again, claiming to have killedUkrainian terrorists”,”text”:”over 70Ukrainian terrorists”}}”>more than 70 Ukrainian terrorists.
These statements were immediately unverifiable from an independent source.
One civilian killed
Unfortunately, there were still casualties. A civilian from the village of Kozinka was killed by the Ukrainian armed forces
, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. Kozinka is one of the localities where the group of fighters claimed responsibility for the attack.
Russia claims to have eliminated fighters infiltrating from Ukraine who attacked the border region of Belgorod yesterday. kyiv denies any involvement in this incursion into Russian territory, the largest since the start of the war. The story of Lise Villeneuve.
Russia has accused kyiv of being behind the attack, but Ukrainian authorities deny any involvement.
We don’t fight wars on foreign lands
assured on Tuesday the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense Ganna Maliar, seeing it as a Russian internal crisis
.
The attack was claimed on a Telegram channel which presents itself as belonging to the Freedom Legion for Russia
a group of Russians fighting on the Ukrainian side, which had already claimed to be behind previous incursions into the same region.
Another similar group would take part in the operation, the Russian Volunteer Corps
.
Dmitri Peskov, porte-parole du Kremlin
Photo : Archyde.com / Sputnik Photo Agency
What happened [lundi] arouses deep concern and demonstrates once again that Ukrainian fighters continue their activities against our country
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
This requires more effort from us, these efforts continue to be made and the special military operation [en Ukraine] continues so that this does not happen again
he added.
The governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, declared that several localities, including Grayvoron, capital of the district of the same name, had been subjected to many
bombardments, using artillery pieces, multiple rocket launchers and drones.
Nine localities were also evacuated, said the governor, who reported a total of at least 12 injured civilians.
In response to the incursion, Russia on Monday decreed a regime counterterrorism
throughout the Belgorod region, a measure that strengthens the powers of the authorities to carry out armed operations, control civilians or even evacuate populations. This regime had been used in Chechnya from 1999 to 2009.
The Russian Investigative Committee, in charge of the main investigations, announced on Tuesday the opening of an investigation for terrorist act
.
As a vast Ukrainian counter-offensive looms, Russian territory has been the target in recent months and weeks of an increasing number of sabotages, bombings and drone attacks attributed to Kiev, but never claimed by the Ukraine, which prefers to evoke actions of Russian partisans.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not speak about the incursion, confining himself, during a decoration ceremony at the Kremlin on Tuesday, to speaking in a very general way about the conflict in Ukraine.
« Yes, Russia is facing difficult times, but today is a special time for our national consolidation […] Moscow defends the Russian populations of the Ukrainian Donbass. »
On Monday, his spokesman said he had been informed of the incursion into the Belgorod region.
The Kremlin on Monday accused kyiv of being behind this attack, with the aim of To divert attention
of the capture claimed by Russian forces of the city of Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces claimed this weekend to have taken the entire devastated city, the scene of the longest and deadliest battle of the conflict, where both sides suffered heavy casualties.
kyiv denied the loss of Bakhmout, saying again on Tuesday that battles for the city […] continue
.
In addition, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front line in the Donetsk region in the east on Tuesday, where he met with soldiers.
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