A group of Russian combatants opposed to the Government of Vladimir Putin have claimed responsibility for the attacks that Belgorod, a Russian border city with Ukraine, has suffered in the last few hours, pointing out that they want your children “grow in peace and be free”something that makes it necessary to “put an end to the dictatorship of the Kremlin.”
The groups ‘Russian Freedom Legion’ and the ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’ had previously assured on their respective Telegram channels that they were carrying out combat actions in the Russian border regions with Ukraine of Belgorod and Bryansk.
“We are Russians like you, people like you. We want our children to grow up in peace and be free, to be able to travel and be happy in a free country, but that has no place in Putin’s Russia today,” says the group’s spokesman. .
Statement for the world made by the soldiers of the Freedom of Russia Legion before they crossed into Russia from Ukraine this morning.
They say the end goal for them is the Red Square in Moscow.
English subtitles at the bottom pic.twitter.com/nw7trf5PHI
— Visegrad 24 (@visegrad24) May 22, 2023
The video points out that the Putin regime is “rotten to the core with corruption, lies, censorship, restrictions on freedoms and repressions.” “The time has come to put an end to the Kremlin dictatorship,” he says.
The spokesman appreciates the support the group is receiving from donations and attack proposals. “Your support is what reminds us every day that our final goal is Red Square,” he settles.
Russia accuses Ukraine of the attack
The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkov, has declared on Monday the anti-terrorist regime in the area after explosions occurred in the area on Sunday night that the Kremlin has blamed on “Ukrainian saboteurs.”
The measure includes temporary restrictions in order to guarantee the safety of the citizens of the region. Among other measures, industrial activities that require the use of explosives will be suspended and radioactive, chemical and biological substances, Gladkov said.
The initiative would also allow the Government limit the movement of citizens and suspend communications services such as mobile networks or the Internet.
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“A group of saboteurs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the territory of the Graivoron district. The Armed Forces of Russia together with the Border Guard and the FSB (former KGB) adopt the necessary measures to liquidate the enemy“, assured the governor in Telegram.
Gladkov has claimed that three people, two men and one woman, were injured by the mine explosion and they had to be hospitalized. In addition, three homes and a government building were damaged during the “sabotage.”
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Earlier, the Baza Telegram channel, which is linked to Russia’s security services, had posted footage apparently showing a Ukrainian tank attacking a Russian border post.
For his part, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, pointed out that “the objective of the Ukrainian sabotage in the Belgorod region is to divert attention from the situation in the direction of Bakhmut.”
Ukraine denies its involvement
From Ukraine, however, any type of participation in this event is denied. According to the representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence Andrii Yusov, the actions in Belgorod have been carried out only by two armed groups of the Russian oppositionthe Russian Volunteer Corps and the Russian Freedom Legion.
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Yusov has indicated that the objective of these groups is to “liberate these territories from the Putin regime and push back the enemy to create a certain security zone to protect Ukrainian civilians”.