The group that attacked Belgorod says it advanced 42 kilometers into Russian territory

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May 24. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Russian Volunteer Corps and the Russian Freedom Legion, which is responsible for the attack in Belgorod, has assured this Wednesday that during the acts of sabotage the day before it managed to advance up to 42 kilometers through the border region of and that if they had established a “more precise objective” would have reached the capital of the same name.

“When we crossed the Russian border, we saw that both the military leaders and the politicians were not prepared,” said the person who goes by the name of Denis White Rex, one of the men in command of this squad considered a terrorist by the Kremlin, in a round improvised press near the border, according to Ukrainian media.

White Rex has assured that several towns in the region were controlled by these “volunteer” squads for one day, although it has acknowledged that due to the lack of capacity to maintain their positions beyond the border with Ukraine for a longer time, they have been able to seize weapons and armored vehicles

Every foray across the Russian border, he has said, is a “success” because it is “enemy territory.” “We want to show that the power of a tyrant is not unlimited, that he can resist,” he said, also celebrating that the latest incursion did not cause casualties among the ranks.

Questioned about the presence of US military vehicles and equipment on the battlefield, as denounced by the Kremlin, the head of this squad of “volunteers” replied that it is nothing more than “propaganda”.

“As Vladimir Putin once said, ‘you can buy military equipment of any kind in any military market,’ and then there is American equipment that the Russians managed to get in battles, for example, near Bakhmut,” he said.

For its part, the so-called Freedom Legion of Russia has assured that if they had established “more precise objectives” they would have been able to reach the city of Belgorod, since the reaction of the Russian troops was not only “very slow” and ” inadequate”, but also went so far as to “panic”.

Over the weekend, the Belgorod region was the scene of renewed skirmishes by alleged discontents with the current Kremlin authority. The attacks reached their peak on Monday amid Russian accusations that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were behind it, something kyiv has denied.

On Tuesday, Russia claimed it had defeated these groups, putting the number of “terrorists” killed during the clashes at 70.