![]() ![]() The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington, DC-based based think tank, said on Tuesday that two “all-Russian pro-Ukrainian” groups had crossed the border with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and other armoured vehicles, according to Russian sources. Other videos posted on Russian and Ukrainian social media channels showed pictures and videos of what were described as captured Russian service members and their identity documents. The Russian Volunteer Corps troops allegedly captured a Russian armored personnel carrier BTR82A during their incursion from Ukraine into Belgorod oblast, western Russia, on 22 May. Another video showed what it said were fighters operating an armoured vehicle on a country road inside Russian territory. The RVC published video footage late on Monday on their Telegram social media channel which showed what the group said was a fighter inspecting a captured Russian armoured vehicle. Telegram channels monitoring Russia’s military activity, including the blog Rybar with more than a million subscribers, said buildings housing Russia’s interior ministry and the FSB security service had come under attack in the region’s main town, also known as Belgorod. #Ukraine is watching the events in the #Belgorod region of #Russia with interest and studying the situation, but it has nothing to do with it. The only driving political force in a totalitarian country of tightened screws is always an armed guerrilla movement. “Ukraine is watching the events in the #Belgorod region of #Russia with interest and studying the situation,” he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Twitter that Ukraine had “nothing to do with it” and suggested that an “armed guerrilla movement” had emerged to oppose “a totalitarian country”. Ukraine intelligence representative Andrii Cherniak also said Russian citizens were behind the cross-border assault. The RVC was founded last August and reportedly consists mostly of anti-Putin far-right Russian fighters who have links with Ukrainian far-right groups. Little is known about the groups or their ties with the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian news broadcaster Hromadske, citing Ukrainian military intelligence sources, said on Monday that two armed Russian opposition groups, the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), consisting of Russian citizens, were responsible for the attack on the Belgorod region. One woman has been killed and two people wounded but Russian forces have been unable to reach them, he added. “On the situation in the Graivoron district: the cleaning of the territory by the Ministry of Defence together with law enforcement agencies continues,” he said on the Telegram messaging app. The governor told residents who fled Graivoron that it was “not possible to return yet” to their homes. The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Tuesday that a “counterterrorism operation” was continuing against what he had earlier described as a Ukrainian “sabotage group” which had entered Russian territory in the Graivoron district bordering Ukraine. ![]() ![]() Moscow’s forces are continuing to engage in operations against cross-border raiders – described alternatively as either armed Russian opposition groups or Ukrainian saboteurs – who entered Russia from Ukraine in one of the most daring attacks on Russian territory since the Kremlin’s war on Kyiv began 15 months ago.
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