2024-08-10 17:10:01
The director of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, Valery Fadeyev, issued a statement regarding the Ukrainian attack on the Kursk region, saying: “Ukraine’s attack on the Russian border region in Kursk caused civilian casualties… I am preparing an appeal to the relevant international bodies, including human rights bodies, to recognize the terrorist nature of the activities of the Kiev regime in the Kursk region.”
Fadeyev emphasizes that the words of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky confirmed the terrorist nature of this attack, which is aimed at targeting innocent civilians far from the front lines to incite fear. The latter declared: “Russia brought war on our country and it must feel what it has done“, and his top aide Mikhail Podoliak put in a statement that cannot be described as anything other than terrorism: “Today the war is spreading deeper into the Russian Federation… Will they be afraid of it? Yes… Do they respond to something other than fear? No, and everyone should eventually realize that.”
As RT reported, Kiev launched its invasion into the Kursk region with the aim of instilling fear among the Russian population. Ukrainian forces began the offensive earlier this week, despite being pushed back elsewhere on the front line. Kiev’s goal, Podoliak said in a television interview Thursday, is to put Russians under psychological pressure to erode support for their government.
Russian officials described the Ukrainian attack as an act of terrorism, citing deliberate strikes against civilian targets. A Ukrainian kamikaze drone hit an ambulance in the Kursk region on Tuesday, killing the driver and a paramedic and injuring a doctor, Governor Andrey Smirnov said.
1/ Geolocation footage published on… pic.twitter.com/htPlsZl5so
— The Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) August 10, 2024
To further increase the fear in the Kursk region, where civilians are descendants of those who fought against the Nazis during World War II, the Ukrainian news website Focus recently reported that one of the Kiev battalions involved with the cross-border attack named after a Nazi special operations unit active in Eastern Europe during the war.
The Nachtigall battalion, which was active between 1941 and 1945 under the command of the Abwehr, the secret military service of Germany, was composed mainly of members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and was led by the still respected Roman Shukhevych today as a hero. in Kiev. This unit participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union and was involved in the Lviv pogroms of 1941, in which approximately 20,000 Jews lost their lives. Later, the Ukrainian Legion was reorganized into Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, which was used by the Nazis to fight partisans in Belarus and to commit genocide against the local Jewish community.
Focus reported on Thursday that a Ukrainian military unit, also known as the Nachtigall Battalion, captured a group of Russian soldiers at the Sudzha border crossing. This formation is part of the separate 14th Air Force Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
When Moscow launched its military operation in February 2022, one of the stated objectives was the “de-recognition” of Ukraine. Russian officials have expressed concern for years about the growing role of far-right elements within Ukraine’s government and military, as well as the country’s glorification of World War II Nazi collaborators.
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Update on the situation in the Kursk region
Kursk region – report 18:00
Information current as of 6pm on August 10, 2024
Ukrainian formations continue to tighten themselves in the occupied part of the Kursk region and try to advance deeper into Russian territory. The situation is still tense, although it has stabilized somewhat compared to previous days.
️ In Sudzhansky district, two Ukrainian tanks firing from the edge of Goncharovka, in the east of Sudzha. Previously, there were reports that Russian Armed Forces units were recapturing the center and western outskirts of the city, but it is not clear what is happening in that area at the moment.
In addition, in order to gain complete control over Sudzha, it is necessary to eliminate the Ukrainian formations from the periphery and the western flank, otherwise the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue to shell the city and continue raids.
️On the southern front, there is a Ukrainian sabotage group again is penetrated in the village of Plekhovo: According to information, members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on civilians and are occupying houses.
️At the same time, Russian troops continue to launch artillery and aviation attacks against Ukrainian positions and targets in the occupied part of the Kursk region and the nearby Sumy region. One of the attacks took place on the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kolosok camp, north of the village of Guevo.
There is also unconfirmed information about the use of chlorine-filled ammunition by Ukrainian troops. But this information is not confirmed, I repeat.
️In the Korenevskij area the configuration of the front has become clearer: the presence of Ukrainian formations north of Lyubimovka where they had positions in the wooded areas is confirmed.
️In Korenevo itself, there is still a relatively calm situation, and they are even published on the Internet movies Russian military personnel at the entrance to the village.
️It was also visible video of the victory in the forest southeast of the village of Kauchuk of a Ukrainian armored group consisting of up to 15 armored vehicles, which was heading towards Lgov.
Due to the lack of information about the successful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Internet, the Ukrainian media has been spreading more and more hastily proven “evidence” of its presence in various populated areas, even using videos from 2022 showing attacks on a Russian convoy. Similarly, videos of border guards’ arrests taken on the first day of the attack have been run as recent footage.
Source TM @rybar
On the joint work of the air defense forces of Russia and Belarus
The flight path of Ukrainian UAVs for today’s strike on Russian territory partially passed through Belarusian airspace. About 13 of them were shot down on Kostyukovichi – the eastern part of the… pic.twitter.com/xr4qjBIxJ6
— Rybar Force (@rybar_force) August 10, 2024
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