The West has insisted that Ukraine not use weapons it receives from members of the NATO security alliance inside Russia. Patrick Ryder said on Tuesday, emphasizing that the US would “keep a close eye” on the issue. “The US government has not approved any third party transfers of equipment to paramilitary organizations outside the Ukrainian Armed Forces, nor has the Ukrainian government requested any such transfers,” Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Residents of the settlements under attack in Russia's Belgorod region have been moved to other areas. The use of US vehicles in the operation has provoked minor consternation in Washington. He was wryly and consciously repeating a Russian propaganda trope dating back to Moscow’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, when the Kremlin denied its troops were on the ground and suggested that pro-Moscow rebels had bought Russian vehicles on the open market. Yeah … everyone who has some money can do it.” We buy them in international shops, war shops. Similar signals came from “Caesar,” the nickname of the spokesman for the Freedom for Russia Legion, a more moderate anti-Putin formation of a few hundred men which is also dedicated to ending the war in Ukraine and to toppling Russian President Vladimir Putin.Īsked whether it was true that the Russian dissidents had used some US-made MRAP armored vehicles – perhaps even vehicles donated by the United States to Ukraine – Caesar said: “We used Humvees also. Nikitin didn’t actually do a stage wink, but he might as well have. So this is a kind of encouragement and help and aid.” “They will say ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘this is a good idea’, ‘this is a bad idea’. US intelligence indicates Ukrainians may have launched drone attack on Kremlin
What do you think about this? Could you tell us if this is a plausible mission? Would it help Ukraine in this fight or would it make things worse?” Nikitin said.
“What we do, obviously, we can ask our, let’s say, comrades, friends for their assistance in planning. He replied, “Obviously, everything we do, every decision we make behind, beyond the border … is our own decision.”īut he went on to admit a certain “encouragement and help and aid.” “Was this an independent action uncoordinated with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, or did they give you instructions?” I asked Dennis Nikitin, leader of the far-right Russian Volunteer Corps on Wednesday. Members of the Freedom for Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps – both made up of Russian citizens who are fighting in Ukraine against their motherland – all fall under the command of the Ukrainian security forces. Ukrainian officials say the fighters were acting on their own when they raced across the Russian border and shot up Russian towns in the Belgorod region earlier this week, in a two-day raid that was extensively cataloged on social media. In a gleeful parade of shameless propaganda, Russian dissident fighters back from a raid in their home country appeared in Ukraine with a trophy – a captured Russian armored vehicle – but struggled to stick to Kyiv’s official explanation of their exploits.
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