Archiv: from 22-05-2023: Fascist militias from Ukraine and NATO country Poland invade Russian territory near Belgorod


23.03.2024 - 17:53 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Ukraine has nothing to do with the events in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow

„Regarding the events in Moscow‘s Crocus City in the Russian suburbs, where a shooting took place just today, certain terrorist actions by unidentified persons. Let‘s make it clear: Ukraine absolutely has nothing to do with these events,“ Podoliak said in a special video message.

As he noted, „firstly, we are in a full-scale, full-fledged, large, intense war with the Russian regular army and with the Russian Federation as a country. And everything will be decided on the battlefield. It is important for Ukraine to conduct effective combat operations, offensive actions in order to destroy the Russian regular army and thus end this war.“

Secondly, according to Podolyak, Ukraine has never used terrorist methods of warfare. At the same time, he noted that, for its part, it is in Russia‘s recent history that it has repeatedly used certain terrorist acts against its own citizens.

13.03.2024 - 00:47 [ France24.com ]

Pro-Ukrainian armed groups launch incursion into Russia

The Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion said they conducted a string of raids into the Belgorod region in May and June 2023, claiming to have taken temporary control of several settlements after breaking through a border checkpoint.

In March last year, Russia launched a wave of retaliatory missile strikes on Ukraine after it said a sabotage group killed civilians in the Bryansk border region.

05.03.2024 - 00:05 [ New York Times ]

Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say

(June 25, 2022)

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group, which before the war had been training Ukrainian commandos at a base in the country’s west, quietly established a coalition planning cell in Germany to coordinate military assistance to Ukrainian commandos and other Ukrainian troops. The cell has now grown to 20 nations.

16.09.2023 - 08:53 [ Antiwar.com ]

Act Now To Save Ukrainian Peace Activist From Prosecution

We’ve just learned that the office of the prosecutor and the “security service” of Ukraine have published press releases claiming to have put a stop to the activities of the “vicious Russian propagandist Yurii Sheliazhenko.”

This is, of course, very strange because Yurii, a Board Member of World BEYOND War, has — like World BEYOND War — denounced and opposed Russian warmaking from Day 1.

Yurii Sheliazhenko has been formally charged by the Ukrainian government with the crime of justifying Russian aggression. The evidence is this statement which explicitly condemns Russian aggression.

16.09.2023 - 07:55 [ World Beyond War ]

Act Now to Save Ukrainian Peace Activist from Prosecution

This week, spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s “Territorial Defense Forces” Sarah Ashton-Cirillo published a video that included the following words (but you really have to watch it to experience the psychotic, beyond-parody presentation):

“Next week the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam an uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes. And this puppet of Putin is only the first. Russia’s war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down and justice will be served.”

17.06.2023 - 13:15 [ New York Times ]

Allies Pressure Biden to Hasten NATO Membership for Ukraine

(June 14, 2023)

The hope in the push is that once Ukraine is a full member of the alliance, Russia would not dare to try to topple the government in Kyiv because an attack on one NATO country is considered an attack on them all. Ukrainian membership has become a “consuming debate,” both in Europe and inside the Biden administration, according to one senior U.S. official who is deeply involved in the discussions.

Only Germany has sided fully with Mr. Biden, though some of the other 29 allies have their own quiet doubts about Ukraine’s readiness to fully join the alliance — and the risks that NATO nations could get sucked directly into a conflict with Russia in the future.

13.06.2023 - 15:41 [ APnews.com ]

France, Germany and Poland back Ukraine’s counteroffensive in a show of unity

The leaders of France, Germany and Poland met in Paris Monday for talks focusing on military support for Ukraine’s counteroffensive and future security guarantees to be given to the country, ahead of a NATO summit in July.

13.06.2023 - 15:29 [ rferl.org ]

Polish President Pushes for Ukraine‘s NATO Membership At Paris Talks

„Ukraine is waiting for an unambiguous signal regarding a clear prospect of membership in NATO,“ Duda said on June 12 after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Paris. The tripartite meetings involving Germany, France, and Poland, known as the Weimar Triangle, began in 1991 in Weimar, Germany.

09.06.2023 - 04:18 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

NATO countries led by Poland may be willing to put troops on the ground in Ukraine – potentially dragging the alliance into war with Russia – former secretary general warns

‚The president and the prime minister will also discuss the joint US-UK leadership on critical emerging technologies as well as our work to strengthen our economic security.‘

Biden will then hold talks with current NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Monday.

Ukraine is set to top the agenda for their talks which will take place one month out from the summit and will give other NATO countries an inkling of what to expect from Kyiv‘s most powerful western ally.

08.06.2023 - 06:48 [ theGuardian.com ]

Nato members may send troops to Ukraine, warns former alliance chief

Rasmussen said: “If Nato cannot agree on a clear path forward for Ukraine, there is a clear possibility that some countries individually might take action. We know that Poland is very engaged in providing concrete assistance to Ukraine. And I wouldn’t exclude the possibility that Poland would engage even stronger in this context on a national basis and be followed by the Baltic states, maybe including the possibility of troops on the ground.

“I think the Poles would seriously consider going in and assemble a coalition of the willing if Ukraine doesn’t get anything in Vilnius.

08.06.2023 - 01:00 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Urteil wegen „Billigung des russischen Angriffskriegs“: Vorsicht – eine falsche Meinung kann jetzt kriminell sein

Das Kölner Amtsgericht hat eine 48 Jahre alte Frau wegen „Billigung des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine“ schuldig gesprochen, wie Medien berichten. Die Richterin verurteilte die Frau am Dienstag zu einer Geldstrafe von 30 Tagessätzen zu je 30 Euro. Nach Überzeugung des Gerichts hatte die Ukrainerin am 8. Mai 2022 „bei einer pro-russischen Demonstration“ in Köln den Krieg „für andere wahrnehmbar gutgeheißen und befürwortet“, wie es in der Urteilsbegründung hieß.

Laut Medienberichten hatte die Frau in einem Fernseh-Interview, das in der Verhandlung in Augenschein genommen wurde, gesagt: „Russland ist kein Aggressor“. Zudem habe sie gesagt, das Vorgehen Russlands sei „alternativlos“. Das Gericht war überzeugt, dass die Äußerungen der Frau geeignet seien, „den öffentlichen Frieden zu stören“.

07.06.2023 - 10:10 [ Nachrichtenagentur Radio Utopie ]

BREAKING: Russian „volunteer“ militia invade Poland. NATO: „That´s ok.“ … oh, wait a third..

check this out, dumbass.

07.06.2023 - 09:44 [ Military Watch Magazine ]

Polish Militants Join Armoured Assaults Into Russian Territory: Warsaw Expands Central Role in War Effort

(June 5, 2023)

The Russian and Western sources have both widely reported that these incursions have been supported by Russian far right groups which have coordinated closely with the Ukrainian Military and with foreign fighters in Ukraine. Videos published by the Polish militants regarding their operations show them using Ukrainian T-72B tanks and Mi-8 helicopters as well as U.S.-supplied HMMWV armoured vehicles, which comes as part of a much wider trend towards Polish combatants in Ukraine being given extensive access to weapons supplies as they are often considered more reliable than many of the local conscript units.

07.06.2023 - 09:16 [ NBC News ]

Who are the anti-Putin groups behind the dramatic raid into Russia?

(May 26, 2023)

Its commander, Denis Kapustin, who also goes by the last name of Nikitin, is a white nationalist and ex-soccer hooligan who shares neo-Nazi views.

Kapustin is listed on Russia’s federal wanted list and its register of extremists and terrorists.

The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League has described Kapustin as “a Russian neo-Nazi who lived in Germany for many years.”

07.06.2023 - 08:49 [ New York Times ]

Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say

(June 25, 2022)

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group, which before the war had been training Ukrainian commandos at a base in the country’s west, quietly established a coalition planning cell in Germany to coordinate military assistance to Ukrainian commandos and other Ukrainian troops. The cell has now grown to 20 nations.

07.06.2023 - 08:42 [ Military Watch Magazine ]

The CIA and NATO’s ‘Stealth Network’ in Ukraine: American Boots on the Ground Coordinating a Proxy War Against Russia

(June 28th 2022)

The extent of Western material support was perhaps best symbolised by Ukrainian special forces operating in the contested Donbas regions, which the Times highlighted had American flag patches on their equipment and carried new Western-supplied portable surface to air missiles and both Belgian and American assault rifles. Efforts on the ground in Ukraine were supplemented by considerable support provided to Ukrainian personnel in NATO member states themselves, an example being training for Ukrainian commandos in Germany provided by the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group. At Ramstein Air Base in Germany, U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard personnel simultaneously trained the Ukrainian Air Force.

07.06.2023 - 08:30 [ BalticWorlds.com ]

In Poland, COVID-19 exposes progressing societal militarization

(May 31, 2020)

As the lockdown unraveled, the disoriented Polish public swiftly learned from the media that the country is “at war with an invisible aggressor”, one that requires the Minister of Health to act like a “Commander in Chief” and puts the medical staff on the “front lines”. This military rhetoric was soon multiplied by media reports on the spike in Russian and Chinese “information warfare” against the European Union over COVID-19. Far from being purely discursive, this warlike response to the pandemic has also involved a wide deployment of close to ten thousand military personnel across the country. Already in March, the newly-founded Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) were mobilized for the first Polish comprehensive anti-crisis military operation after 1989.

07.06.2023 - 08:24 [ NationalInterest.org ]

How the Army Is Training European Militias to Stop a Russian Invasion

(January 14, 2020)

Their tasks could include slowing the advancing units of an aggressor nation by destroying key transportation infrastructure such as bridges, attacking enemy forces at choke-points and potentially serving as forward observers for NATO aircraft responding with air strikes.

07.06.2023 - 08:16 [ US Army ]

Special Forces Soldiers train with Polish, Latvian allies in West Virginia

(October 8, 2019)

The State Partnership Program (SPP) is a National Guard Bureau initiative that links states and territories with partner countries around the world to foster mutual interests, establish long-term relations, enhance U.S. national security interests, and promote political stability. Through the SPP program, the Illinois National Guard is partnered with Poland and the Michigan National Guard is partnered with Latvia.

07.06.2023 - 08:14 [ West Virginia National Guard ]

W.Va. Special Forces train with Polish, Latvian forces in West Virginia

(July 3, 2019)

West Virginia Army National Guard (WVARNG) Special Forces Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently completed the first irregular and unconventional warfare training iteration for members of the Polish Territorial Defense Forces and Latvian Zemmessardze as a part of the Ridge Runner program in West Virginia.

Ridge Runner is a WVARNG training program that provides various National Guard, active duty, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally nation armed forces training and experience to in irregular and asymmetrical warfare tactics and operations.

07.06.2023 - 07:57 [ Politico.eu ]

Poland to recruit 35,000 for paramilitary force to combat Russia threat

(June 3, 2016)

Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz announced Thursday that the command structure and senior appointments for the Territorial Defense Force, which will ultimately number 35,000, had already been decided.

The force will be aimed at countering hybrid warfare, such as that used by Russia to annex the Crimean Peninsula, Radio Free Europe reported officials as saying.

07.06.2023 - 06:54 [ Reuters ]

Eyeing Russia nervously, Poles enrol in volunteer militias

(March 20, 2015)

The Polish government has kept its distance from the unofficial civilian militias but, with anxieties about Moscow’s intentions growing, the professional military is now looking for ways to harness the volunteer groups.

There are an estimated 120 such groups in Poland, with total membership around 10,000. Eight hundred members gathered on Friday in Warsaw at a meeting organised by the Defence Ministry, the first time they have been given official recognition.

06.06.2023 - 09:19 [ PolskieRadio.pl ]

Ex-CIA-Chef: Ukrainische Gegenoffensive könnte Wendepunkt des Krieges sein

(05.06.2023)

Die Gegenoffensive der ukrainischen Streitkräfte kann zu bedeutenden Ergebnissen führen, nicht nur auf dem Schlachtfeld, sondern auch in den Köpfen der Ukrainer, Europäer, Amerikaner und anderer, was die Ukraine auf den Weg zum Sieg bringen werde, erklärte der ehemalige CIA-Direktor General David Petraeus im Interview mit dem Online-Blatt Kiev Independent.

06.06.2023 - 07:55 [ Euractiv.com ]

Moscow slams Polish General’s call to back potential mass rebellion in Belarus

(May 26, 2023)

Skrzypczak said a potential uprising in Belarus might start from similar operations to those by Russians in Belgorod. He added that they would gain support from society, and Poland should not miss the momentum to support Belarusians.

In such circumstances, Lukashenko could hardly count on Moscow’s help.

“Russia has its own problems,” he insisted.

06.06.2023 - 07:45 [ Hellas.postsen.com ]

Polish mercenaries took part in the recent raids on Belgorod

(04th June 2023)

In particular, yesterday Sunday, the websites Polsatnews.pl and Wprost.pl reported that mercenaries of the so-called Polish Volunteer Corps fought alongside the Ukrainian forces.

The reports cite Telegram posts by the group and a video purportedly showing gunmen on their way to Belgorod.

06.06.2023 - 07:42 [ Hindustan Times ]

NATO Nation‘s fighters aid attacks on Russia‘s Belgorod; Poland in a fix amid ‚Putin‘s fear‘

Poland has distanced itself from reports that Polish mercenaries had joined militia in leading attacks on territories deep inside Russia. This after several videos of Polish Volunteer Corps crossing the Ukrainian boundary and mocking the Russian regime went viral.

05.06.2023 - 19:37 [ Reuters ]

Belgium investigating whether its weapons were used in Russia, PM says

„European weapons are delivered to Ukraine under the condition that they are used on Ukrainian territory with the purpose of defending that territory. And we have strict controls in place to see that this is the case,“ he said.

De Croo declined to comment on possible consequences if the reports were confirmed.

05.06.2023 - 19:33 [ Washington Post ]

Shelling hits Russia’s Belgorod region as militias mount cross-border attack

Belgorod’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, blamed the attacks on Ukraine’s military, but two anti-Putin paramilitary groups have claimed credit for them. (…)

The pro-Ukrainian militias, which claimed to have carried out a series of cross-border incursions in recent days, said their forces had mounted another attack on government facilities and taken Russian soldiers prisoner over the weekend.

05.06.2023 - 19:16 [ FabianKaiser / Nitter ]

Nato-Waffen in Belgorod eingesetzt? Belgische Regierung fordert Aufklärung von Kiew

05.06.2023 - 19:08 [ Exxpress.at ]

Angriffe in der Region Belgorod: Auch polnische Kämpfer auf russischem Gebiet

Das Freiwilligenbataillon hat auch ein offizielles Emblem: Es ist den legendären „Husaren des Todes“ aus der Zeit des polnisch-bolschewistischen Krieges (1919-1921) nachempfunden.

Das “Polnische Frewilligenkorps” kämpft in der Region Belgorod an der Seite jenes “Russischen Freiwilligenkorps”, dass als offen rechtsextrem gilt. Befehlshaber der paramilitärischen Einheit ist der russische Rechtsextremist und White-Rex-Gründer Denis Kapustin (Pseudonym Denis Nikitin).

05.06.2023 - 18:53 [ ZDF ]

Auf russischem Gebiet – Russland: Neue Angriffe in Belgorod

Wer steckt hinter den neuen Angriffen in Belgorod?

Im Gebiet Belgorod kommt es seit einiger Zeit immer wieder zu Kämpfen und Angriffen, für die Moskau stets Kiew verantwortlich macht. Es scheint sich bei den aktuellen Angreifern aber wieder um Mitglieder des so genannten „Russischen Freiwilligenkorps“ zu handeln, das zwar aufseiten der Ukrainer kämpft, aber aus russischen Nationalisten besteht.

05.06.2023 - 18:48 [ stern_politik / Nitter ]

Belgorod: Tote, Nazis, polnische Soldaten: Der Krieg tobt auch in Russland – was ist da los?

05.06.2023 - 07:28 [ New York Times ]

‘Everything Changed’: The War Arrives on Russians’ Doorstep

(June 3, 2023)

Shebekino, a town of 40,000 six miles from the border, has effectively become a new part of the front line as Ukraine has intensified attacks inside Russia, including on residential areas near its own borders. The spate of assaults, most recently by militia groups aligned against Moscow, has sparked the largest military evacuation effort in Russia in decades.

“The town became a ghost in 24 hours,” said Ruslan, 27, who evacuated on Thursday after a sustained campaign of shelling.

05.06.2023 - 07:04 [ @visegrad24 / Twitter ]

BREAKING: The Polish Volunteer Corps has released a video proving their participation in the cross-border raid into the Belgorod region of Russia last week. The Poles can be seen capturing a Russian BTR. The Poles are working together with the Russian Volunteer Corps.

(04.06.2023)

05.06.2023 - 06:19 [ New York Times ]

Russia-Ukraine War: Anti-Kremlin Group Involved in Border Raid Is Led by a Neo-Nazi

(May 26, 2023)

The leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps, one of the two insurgent groups responsible for an armed incursion into Russia this week, is a far-right extremist, German officials and humanitarian groups say.

05.06.2023 - 05:39 [ Washington Post ]

Use of NATO arms for attack in Russia raises doubts about Kyiv’s controls

(June 3, 2023)

Three of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, also known as MRAPs, taken into Russia by the fighters were provided by the United States and the fourth was from Poland, according to people familiar with the U.S. intelligence finding, which has not previously been reported.
(…)
The fighters also carried rifles made by Belgium and the Czech Republic and at least one AT-4 antitank weapon in common use among U.S. and Western troops, according to photos verified by The Washington Post.

05.06.2023 - 05:30 [ DniproToday.com ]

Polish mercenaries fought in the Belgorod region. „It was an honor for our branch“

The Polish Volunteer Corps, a mercenary unit fighting as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, officially confirmed its participation in the operation in the Belgorod region. They carried out the mission together with Russian mercenaries.

The report from the entry into the territory of the Russian Federation appeared on the official Telegram channel of the corps.

05.06.2023 - 05:20 [ Patrick S / Nitter ]

Äh wie bitte? Was?? „Polnische Spezialeinheit bestätigt Beteiligung an Angriffen auf Belgorod“

25.05.2023 - 18:32 [ Jack’s House / Nitter ]

1) The Russian government released this photo of the alleged Belgorod insurgents vehicles after a battle. I used to be a tow truck operator. This is staged. These vehicles didn’t crash into that trench. I’ll explain why

2) No gravel stuck in the tire tread. In fact, no dirt on the tires at all. This was loaded into that trench off a flatbed and carefully choreographed in place. Not even a low-budget war movie production would be this sloppy with realism. Let’s go to the next ….

25.05.2023 - 18:28 [ SaudiGazette.com.sa ]

Shoigu vows ‘harsh response’ after incursion into Russia

Russia also says that Western military vehicles were used in the incursion.

It posted pictures of destroyed US vehicles apparently at the scene of the fighting but some Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested they could have been staged.

The US said it was skeptical that reports of US-supplied weapons being used in the incursion were true and did not “encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia”.

But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the vehicles were evidence of growing Western military involvement in Ukraine.

24.05.2023 - 21:12 [ Reuters ]

Russia says cross-border attack from Ukraine has been crushed, one civilian killed

It said more than 70 Ukrainian fighters had been killed and four armoured vehicles and five pick-up trucks destroyed.

„The remnants of the nationalists were pushed back to Ukrainian territory, where they continued to be hit by gunfire until they were completely eliminated,“ the ministry added.

22.05.2023 - 19:58 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Freedom of Russia Legion, RDK conducting operation in Russian Belgorod to create ‘security strip’ to protect Ukrainians – GUR

The Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) are conducting an operation in Belgorod region of the Russian Federation in order to create a „security strip“ to protect Ukrainians, said representative of the Main Intelligence Agency (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Yusov in a comment to Suspilne.

„The Freedom of Russia legion and Russian Volunteer Corps are conducting an operation on the territory of Belgorod region to create a ‘security strip’ to protect civilian Ukrainians. According to him, the operation is carried out exclusively by Russian citizens,“ the Telegram channel says.

22.05.2023 - 19:51 [ BBC ]

Ukraine war: Saboteurs cross into Russia‘s Belgorod, governor says

BBC Verify has been analysing footage from the Belgorod region that emerged on social media on Monday.

So far, the team has located a video apparently filmed from a drone that features several armoured vehicles near a border checkpoint south of Belgorod. Additionally, BBC Verify has geolocated footage of helicopters operating in the region.

The footage is recent, but it is hard to say for certain from the videos what the exact sequence of events is.

16.10.2022 - 07:12 [ Tass.com ]

Eleven killed in terrorist attack at training range in Belgorod Region — Defense Ministry

„On October 15, two citizens of a CIS country committed an act of terror at training range of the Western Military District in the Belgorod Region,“ the ministry said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the terrorists opened fire using small arms at the unit’s military personnel during a shooting training session, which was attended by those willing to take part in the special military operation.

16.10.2022 - 06:30 [ de.RT.com ]

Russland: Mindestens elf Tote bei Anschlag auf Militäreinheit nahe Belgorod

Das russische Militär hat bisher keine weiteren Einzelheiten über den Angriff oder die Identität der Angreifer bekanntgegeben. Es ist auch unklar, ob es sich bei den Getöteten und Verletzten um Militärs oder Zivilisten handelt. (…)

Der Vorfall soll sich am Morgen des 15. Oktober bei Schießübungen direkt auf dem Übungsgelände ereignet haben. Unbestätigten Berichten zufolge sollen zwei Bewaffnete das Maschinengewehr, mit dem sie das Schießen übten, auf eine Gruppe von Personen gerichtet haben, die auf ihren Einsatz warteten, und das Feuer eröffnet haben.

16.10.2022 - 06:24 [ BBC ]

Belgorod shooting: Gunmen kill 11 in attack on Russian trainee soldiers

„During a firearms training session with individuals who voluntarily expressed a desire to participate in the special military operation [against Ukraine], the terrorists opened fire with small arms on the personnel of the unit,“ Ria cited a defence ministry statement as saying.

„As a result of the shooting, 11 people were fatally wounded. Another 15 people with wounds of varying severity were taken to a medical facility,“ it said.