The issue internationally with Russia officially incorporating the Donbass as part of Russia is that people maybe don’t make the distinction between that territory and internationally recognized Russian territory.
Belgorod is in normal Russia, it’s not a part of the former Ukraine.
Apparently, the purpose of this attack was to give the Ukrainians something to celebrate following their defeat in Bakhmut. There was no strategic purpose other than to terrorize the civilian population.
RT:
Several American-made armored cars were among the seven vehicles documented to have been destroyed on Monday, when a unit of Ukrainian militants was defeated after trespassing into Russia’s border region of Belgorod.
Photos and video taken by the Russian military in the aftermath of the battle showed several abandoned, damaged or destroyed vehicles used by the Ukrainian force.
Two M1151A1 Hummvee armored cars can be seen stuck in what appears to be a bomb crater, showing combat damage. Another Hummvee, the lightly armored cargo version still in desert tan color, sat on the side of the road with its tires shot out.
Two of the M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicles were apparently left behind, one near a treeline and another inside a warehouse. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle is made by the US company Navistar Defense in cooperation with the Israeli Plasan Sasa.
An AMZ Dzik-2 armored car, of Polish manufacture, showed signs of battle damage, while a Ukrainian-made KrAZ Kobra vehicle had been completely destroyed.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that “over 70 Ukrainian terrorists, four armored combat vehicles, and five pickup trucks had been destroyed” in the Belgorod clash, with the remaining intruders pushed back into Ukraine and “completely eliminated” by artillery fire.
Moscow described the raid as an attempt to terrorize civilians to distract from a military defeat in Artyomovsk – called Bakhmut by Ukrainians – a key city in Donbass taken by the Russian military and ‘Wagner Group’ forces over the weekend. One civilian was killed and 12 injured in the incursion.
Kiev has attempted to disavow the raid by claiming it was carried out by the ‘Freedom of Russia Legion’ and ‘Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK)’, the neo-Nazi unit that claimed responsibility for a similar raid in Bryansk Region in March. The Kremlin responded that it was a distinction without a difference, as the militants fought in the Ukrainian military using equipment provided by the West.
RDK is another CIA/NED group, apparently – but it might not even be real at all. Anyway, it’s a goofy thing to say “oh well – that was actually Russian citizens!” when if that were true, those Russian citizens are working as mercenaries for the Ukraine/NATO military, and have no doubt had their citizenship revoked.
But the videos look as staged as those CIA ISIS videos.
🇷🇺 IS BEING INVADED… BY RUSSIANS?
The Russian Volunteer Corps, which is fighting on the side of Ukraine 🇺🇦, issued a statement prior to launching their invasion of Russia 🇷🇺:
“Residents of the border regions!
Stay at home, do not resist and do not be afraid: we are not your… pic.twitter.com/72NhY8Cm61
— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) May 22, 2023
The totally unhinged US State Department is claiming that the images were faked as a part of a Russian conspiracy.
RT:
“We’ve seen some of the reports circulating on social media and elsewhere making claims that US-supplied weapons were used in these attacks,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday in Washington. “I will say that we’re skeptical at this time of the veracity of these reports.”
Miller suggested that footage of the destroyed vehicles might be fake.
“We’ve seen a lot of reports on social media and fuzzy pictures on social media and a lot of kind of armchair intelligence analysts making claims,” he said. “We’re skeptical that they’re accurate.”
The images appear to show the disabled US-made equipment, including Humvees and at least one MaxxPro MRAP armored fighting vehicle. Nevertheless, when questioned on why US officials haven’t made a definitive assessment, Miller stood by his claim.
“We don’t have perfect clarity on the information,” he told reporters. “We’re looking at the same pictures you see, the same fuzzy images, and at this time, we are skeptical of their veracity.”
This is psycho.
What sort of total retards would believe this?
No one is looking at “fuzzy” images. But I guess the Fatmerican population has been so prepped to just believe anything that they will just believe anything.
It’s interesting that the US is not comfortable saying “yeah, we’re invading Russia now.” At some point, they will just admit that, and say “what are you going to do about it?”
Miller is Jewish, by the way.
Just in case anyone is keeping track of that.
If you’re thinking “oh, surely terrorism against civilians is a bad look for the Ukraine???” then you don’t really understand the situation. The hardcore Ukraine supporters are actively celebrating this. They’re posting videos of women screaming and laughing at them.