The two armed groups who starred at the end of May a raid from Ukraine into Russia’s Belgorod region have announced on Thursday new infiltration in the Russian Federationin two videos allegedly recorded from territory of that country.
“The second phase (of the operation) promised by the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (CVR) has begun!” reads one of the messages published on the Telegram account of this formation made up of Russian volunteers who until now were fighting with the Ukrainian Army.
According to the CVR, some of its troops are already back inside Russia and are heading towards the town of Shebekinoin the province of Belgorod bordering Ukraine, where they made their most ambitious armed incursion to date.
“Liberate All Russia”
The other formation of armed russian volunteersthe Freedom for Russia Legion, in turn published a video allegedly recorded in the town of grayvoronalso located in Belgorod, in which he reaffirms his intention to “liberate all of Russia from Belgorod to Vladivostok”.
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Both groups have been fighting for months together with the Ukrainian Army against Russian forces and say they have as their objective the overthrow by weapons of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He kyiv government It claims to have nothing to do with the actions of these formations on Russian territory, but tolerates their operation on Ukrainian soil.
Russian authorities claimed to have killed more than 70 “Ukrainian terrorists” in the late May raid. The two armed groups that claimed responsibility insist that only Russian citizens participated and deny having suffered casualties.