Dozens of Ukrainian saboteurs attempted to slip across the border into the Russian region of Belgorod on Monday. On Tuesday, the Russian military reported that the formations had been blocked and eliminated, with over 70 Ukrainian saboteurs killed, and four armored fighting vehicles and five pickups destroyed.
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage showing the remains of a Ukrainian sabotage group force after heavy fighting with Russian troops.
The footage shows vehicles, some of them charred after being set ablaze, and others abandoned, riddled with bullets and driven into what look like makeshift anti-tank ditches.
Some of the vehicles have white crosses and the words "For Bakhmut" (another name for Artemovsk) written on them with spray paint.
Belgorod’s authorities have indicated that a civilian from the village of Kozinka died in the course of Ukrainian attacks, and that 13 people have been injured in shelling of the border area. Earlier in the day, the MoD released a video showing a column of Ukrainian vehicles traveling along a road in the Belgorod region before being struck by Russian drones and artillery.
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage showing the remains of a Ukrainian sabotage group force after heavy fighting with Russian troops
Dozens of Ukrainian saboteurs attempted to slip across the border into the Russian region of Belgorod on Monday. On Tuesday, the Russian military reported that the formations had been blocked and eliminated, with over 70 Ukrainian saboteurs killed, and four armored fighting vehicles and five pickups destroyed.
Paratroopers destroy enemy armoured vehicles on right bank of Dnepr
The Airborne Troops self-propelled artillery units conduct daily combat work to destroy the enemy manpower, hardware and fortifications on the right bank of the Dnepr River.
Russian Defense Ministry to respond swiftly, severely to Kiev’s terror attacks — top brass
Russia’s Defense Ministry will continue to swiftly and severely react to Kiev’s actions such as a terror attack against Russian civilians in the Belgorod Region, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday.
He reiterated that on May 22, a unit of a Ukrainian nationalist formation infiltrated Russian territory in the vicinity of the Kozinka border checkpoint in the Belgorod Region. During a counterterror operation, the Ukrainian nationalist formations were blocked and wiped out.
"The remaining nationalists were pushed back to Ukraine where strikes on them continued until complete elimination. Over 70 Ukrainian terrorists have been wiped out as well as automotive and armored equipment. We will continue to respond to such actions by Ukrainian militants in a swift and extremely severe way," Shoigu said at the Defense Ministry’s board meeting.
As the Russian military agency reported on Tuesday, the incursion of the Ukrainian sabotage group was preceded by intensive artillery bombardments of the Kozinka checkpoint and several other civilian facilities in the Grayvoronsky District of the Belgorod Region. It added that, after failing in Artyomovsk, the Kiev regime switched to plotting terror attacks against civilians.
Russia to harshly suppress any Ukrainian terrorist attack, says diplomat
The Russian side will continue to harshly suppress any terrorist attacks, as it did in the case of Ukrainian saboteurs in the Belgorod Region, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"Of course, no one can overshadow the victory in Artyomovsk. The May 22 saboteurs’ attack on the Belgorod Region was aimed at giving the Kiev regime’s NATO handlers a false impression of some high combat capability of the Ukrainian military and so on. It failed. All such terrorist attacks will continue to be harshly suppressed in the future," the diplomat told the briefing on Wednesday.
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Zakharova pointed out that extremism and terrorism are now flourishing in Kiev. "We note.... increasingly aggressive statements by Western officials who shamelessly call for bombing peaceful Russian regions," she continued, "They are simply acting treacherously."
A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group infiltrated the Belgorod Region’s Grayvoronsky District on Monday. According to the latest data, 13 civilians were wounded. An elderly woman died during the evacuation. The counter-terrorist operation regime, declared in Russia’s Belgorod Region on Monday because of the Ukrainian saboteurs, has been cancelled. On Tuesday, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that during the counter-terrorist operation Russian forces blocked and defeated Ukrainian nationalist units who infiltrated the region.
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