Representatives of the “Russian Freedom” Legion * and the “Russian Volunteer Corps” are carrying out an “operation” on the territory of the Belgorod region. Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, informed the Ukrainian edition of Hromadske about this.
According to him, the sabotage group entered the territory of the Russian region in order to “create a security zone to protect Ukrainian civilians”. Yurov noted that the “operation” is carried out “exclusively by Russian citizens”.
Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov at around 2:00 p.m. on May 22 announced that a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) had entered the territory of the Graivoronsky district.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with the Border Service, the Russian Guard and the FSB, are taking the necessary measures to eliminate the enemy,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Grayvoronsky district is located on the border with Ukraine. The distance between the district and Belgorod is about 60 km.
How clarified According to RT sources, the Ukrainian DRG entered the Belgorod region near the village of Glotovo. According to the interlocutor of the television channel, a purge is underway, several pieces of equipment have been destroyed, and part of the group has fled. “According to available information, the provocation was organized by the GUR, led by Kirill Budanov,” RT reports.
The Russian army created a trap for Ukrainian saboteurs in the Belgorod region and allowed them to go to the Graivoronsky district in order to eliminate them there, declared Source RT. “There are no hostages, no evacuation is announced, the inhabitants themselves decide to leave. The operation is under control,” the source said.
By data Turned, due to the situation with the Ukrainian DRG in the Belgorod region, the Edelweiss plan was introduced, which involves the collection of all personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to suppress crimes of a terrorist nature.
By information telegram channel “Rybar”, a total of two tanks, one armored personnel carrier and nine armored personnel carriers entered the territory of the Belgorod region. “The enemy managed to advance to the Kozinka-Glotovo crossroads, and from there the DRG reached the Glotovsky House of Culture on foot,” the report said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been briefed on the situation in the Belgorod region. According to Peskov, the purpose of the Ukrainian sabotage is to distract the leadership from Bakhmut, to minimize the political effect of the loss of Bakhmut (Artemovsk (Bakhmut)) by the Ukrainian side.
“Work is underway to expel them from Russian territory and destroy this sabotage group,” son Peskov telegram channel words “You listened to the lighthouse.”
On the morning of May 22, Vyacheslav Gladkov informed that the Graivoronsky district has been under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 9:00 a.m. According to the head of the region, the Russian air defense system worked. In the village of Antonovka, part of the rocket fell into the garden. The village of Kozinka was under mortar fire, one of the shells hit a residential building and started a fire.
“After the shelling of the village of Glotovo, Graivoronsky district, a man and a woman injured by mines were taken to the regional hospital. The woman is in intensive care in serious condition, the man is in moderate condition. clarified Gladkov.
He also said that “a massive computer attack against the Belgorod region has begun”, the purpose of which is to create panic among the population. In particular, information allegedly from the Shebekinsky district administration is disseminated with proposals for local residents to evacuate, he noted, adding that “it’s a lie, it’s not there” .
- the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and prohibited on the territory of Russia
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