by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
While most of the world has been holding their breath and waiting for an Iranian response to Israel’s recent assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, a Ukrainian military group reported to consist of NATO mercenaries invaded Russia and drove into the Kursk region of Russia, where there were no military bases or military operations, and attacked civilian neighborhoods who obviously offered little to no resistance.
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Russia responded quickly to the surprise attacks, but apparently this was a carefully planned invasion with highly trained NATO para-military personnel.
One Of Ukraine’s Toughest And Fastest Brigades Has Joined The Invasion Of Russia
A column of armored vehicles rolling into southern Russia’s Kursk Oblast on the third day of Ukraine’s surprise attack into Russia confirms the involvement of one of Ukraine’s best-equipped and fastest-moving brigades: the 80th Air Assault Brigade.
A video that circulated on social media on Thursday depicts a T-64BV or T-80BV tank, a UR-77 mine-clearing vehicles, an IMR-2 engineering vehicle plus BTR-80 and U.S.-made Stryker wheeled armored personnel carriers rolling past a busy Ukrainian mortar crew. All the vehicles are up-armored with anti-drone cages. Infantry crowd the top of the BTR-80.
An 82-millimeter mortar lobs a bomb at most a couple of miles. It’s clear from the context that the video captures the early moments of a serious Ukrainian assault on Russian positions.
Only the 80th Air Assault Brigade operates that mix of ex-Soviet and ex-American vehicles. Further confirmation is found in a separate video—shot by a Russian drone—depicting strikes on ex-German Marder tracked fighting vehicles in Kursk Oblast.
The 80th Air Assault Brigade, like its sister unit the 82nd Air Assault Brigade, apparently operates Marders alongside its Strykers. The Marders are heavy. The Strykers are fast. They suit the Ukrainian air assault forces’ preference for swift but powerful attacks.
The participation of the 80th Air Assault Brigade—one of the better Ukrainian brigades—underscores the scale of the Ukrainian operation just north of Ukraine’s northern border with Russia. (Source.)
Russia is calling this a terrorist attack since the NATO armed forces only attacked civilians where there were initially no Russian troops or military operations.
It is being reported that the mercenaries are mainly from Poland and Georgia.
Mercenaries from Georgia fighting in Russia’s Kursk Region
A militant force accused of torturing and murdering Russian POWs is reportedly taking part in the incursion
Members of the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary force backed by Kiev, are reportedly taking part in the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk Region.
The presence of the group was reported on Thursday by War Zone, a prominent military-focused news website. It cited a source “with direct knowledge of ongoing operations in Kursk,” and posted a video from a pro-Ukrainian X (formerly Twitter) account as evidence.
The clip shows men operating a mortar, and talking between themselves and with other people off camera in a mixture of Georgian and Russian. They are seen wearing military gear and blue arm tape used by Ukrainian troops to identify each other in the heat of combat.
Another video posted by the same channel, likewise claiming to show the mercenaries in Kursk Region, shows a group of resting fighters, with Ukrainian and Georgian flags on their uniforms. (Source.)
Russian forces reportedly captured one of the Ukrainian soldiers who stated that the mercenaries were communicating in English and Polish on military radios, and that his brigade was “made up of those who used to be in jail”.
A Ukrainian soldier who was captured in Kursk Region amid Kiev’s ongoing cross-border offensive has claimed that foreign mercenaries are fighting for Ukraine on Russian soil.
Footage of an interview with the detainee was released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday. The agency claimed that the man shown in the footage was captured with the help of local residents in Kursk Region. The Ukrainian identified himself as a 26-year-old member of his country’s 80th Air Assault Brigade, which is taking part in the offensive.
Ruslan Poltoratsky, as he introduced himself, said he first heard foreign radio chatter when crossing the Russian border and initially thought it was some kind of interference.
“They spoke in English, Polish, maybe French. I did not understand them, called on the radio to repeat, and only heard gibberish in response,” he said.
He later concluded that the communications were local, since Ukrainian military officials were responding.
“There was something about houses and gunshots in the background,” he claimed.
Poltoratsky also mentioned that a brigade “made up of those who used to be in jail” was taking part in the Kursk Region offensive. He was apparently referring to a unit composed of convicts who volunteered in exchange for early release from prison. (Source.)
The captured soldier also claimed that his commander ordered them to shoot civilians, both those unarmed and those armed, and then loot their homes.
Ukrainians ordered to shoot civilians during Kursk attack – soldier
Men should be shot in the legs and those carrying arms killed on the spot, according to instructions a captured POW has said troops were given
A Ukrainian military commander ordered his men to kill armed civilians and wound unarmed men while operating in Russia’s Kursk Region, a captured soldier has claimed during an interview.
The prisoner of war identified himself as Ruslan Poltoratsky, 26, and said he was an active-duty member of Ukraine’s 80th Air Assault Brigade. His unit was given instructions on how to act on Russian soil by an officer whom he knew under the call sign Strizh (“swift” in Russian) who presumably commanded the squad in which Poltoratsky served.
“The commander specifically told us to … shoot men in their legs and throw them into a root cellar or basement. Kill them if armed,” he said, apparently referring to how he was supposed to treat Russian civilians.
“As for prisoners [of war], there were no particular instructions. Most likely, [we were supposed to take] no prisoners at all,” he added in the four-minute-long clip.
After seizing border settlements, the Ukrainians looted homes, he added, saying: “[We were] taking everything that caught our eye, which was valuable and portable.”
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