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| 'There's Nothing to Talk About with Them.' Russian Army Drives Ukrainian Armed Forces Out of Border Areas |
| 2024-08-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Velesov [REGNUM] Since August 6, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk direction have exceeded 2,000 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on August 13. During this time, more than 300 units of enemy equipment have also been destroyed, the department noted. Over the past 24 hours alone, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 420 people in this direction, and breakthroughs by enemy mobile groups were prevented, the department noted. During the cleansing of the liberated settlement of Ozerki, up to 15 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were killed and six were captured. The Ministry of Defense also reported that the delivery of additional forces and resources to the Kursk region has been organized to increase the troop group and form reserves. All of Russia has risen to the defense of the Kursk region, said the acting head of the region, Alexey Smirnov, on August 13. The enemy has already realized that it will not be able to break the residents of the region, Smirnov wrote on his Telegram channel. "From all over Russia, we receive medicines, food, building materials, essential items, transport, and equipment for the military. In the first, most difficult days for us, the heads of Russian regions responded to our call for help: they accommodated migrants, sent humanitarian aid, provided financial, technical, personnel, and most importantly, moral support," the acting governor noted. The federal center provides powerful support to the region, and President Vladimir Putin personally oversees the work, Smirnov emphasized. "THERE ARE 2,000 PEOPLE UNDER ENEMY OCCUPATION" The Ukrainian Armed Forces control 28 settlements in the Kursk region, acting head of the region Alexey Smirnov said on August 12 during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The enemy controls 28 settlements in the Kursk region, the penetration depth is 12 kilometers, and the front width is 40 kilometers. There are 2 thousand people under enemy occupation, about whose fate we know nothing. 180 thousand people are subject to evacuation, 121 thousand people have left and been evacuated," Smirnov said. In Kursk Oblast, as well as in neighboring border regions — Belgorod and Bryansk Oblasts — a counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced on the night of August 9-10. Residents are being evacuated from Sudzhansky, Bolshesoldatsky, Lgovsky and Korenevsky districts of Kursk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk-Belgorod. In Belgorod region, according to the head of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov, the situation has recently deteriorated sharply due to shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Drone attacks, shelling of the border area with barrel artillery and mortars have become more frequent, and "social tension" is growing in the region. Shebekino is one of the most affected cities in the region, and evacuation from it continues. According to Gladkov, about 50-70% of residents have left the city. "KYIV IS FULFILLING THE WILL OF ITS WESTERN MASTERS" Having heard the reports, the head of state named the reasons that pushed the Ukrainian Armed Forces command to attack in the Kursk region. First of all, Putin noted, the situation in the region shows why Kyiv refused peace talks with Moscow, including peace initiatives of mediators. "Such actions, of course, pursue the main military goal - namely, to stop the advance of our troops to fully liberate Donbass and Novorossiya and improve our negotiating positions. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing along the entire line of combat conflict in the special operation zone, and the pace of advancement of the Russian Armed Forces along the entire front has increased by 1.5 times," the president emphasized. Despite the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to create favorable conditions for negotiations with their offensive, there can be no negotiations with people “who are hitting civilians and creating a danger to nuclear power facilities,” Putin said. Among other goals of Kyiv, which is fulfilling the “will of its Western masters,” the president named an attempt to destroy the cohesion of Russian society and emphasized that the enemy had failed to do so. "The West is fighting the Russian Federation with the hands of Ukrainians, Putin said. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasing dramatically, including among elite units," the head of state summed up. He set the task for the relevant departments and security agencies to drive the enemy out of Russian territory and strengthen the security of the state border, as well as to ensure a counter-terrorist operation regime in the border area. According to Putin, not only Kursk, but also Bryansk region may be subject to attacks: he called on the leadership of this region to be vigilant, despite the fact that “everything is calm there today.” At the same time, the government is engaged in supporting residents of the Kursk region, as reported to the president by the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov. The support measures include evacuation of the population; one-time payments of 10 thousand rubles per person, and within the framework of the current emergency status, citizens receive another payment of 15 thousand rubles; payments for complete or partial loss of housing and to relatives of the deceased; free communication in areas suffering from shelling. Putin supported the decision to introduce a moratorium on mortgage and consumer loan payments in the Kursk region, and in the future, in the Belgorod region. DELIBERATE ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS The situation in Kursk Oblast was also commented on by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The report by the official representative of the department, Svetlana Petrenko, stated that the Investigative Committee is recording targeted crimes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the civilian population. "Ukrainian servicemen opened fire on a group of civilians who were evacuating from the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery. As a result, one person died. The Ukrainian operator of an FPV drone, who sees everything around the aircraft he controls in real time, deliberately directed it at an ambulance in the city of Sudzha. The paramedic and the driver were killed in the explosion, and the doctor was hospitalized with injuries. Journalist Yevgeny Poddubny, who was performing his professional duties, became a target of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was wounded, despite the fact that he did not have a weapon with him. And these are just a few examples," Petrenko said. The defendants in the case are also known: the commanders of two units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Vladimir Pipko and Emil Ishkulov, who are suspected of committing a terrorist attack, murders and attempted murders. More from regnum.ru "Foreign Nonsense on the Radio." Who is Attacking Russia Together with the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Ilya Ropshin Every day, more and more evidence appears of the participation of Western mercenaries in the fighting in the Kursk region. On August 12, the FSB Public Relations Center reported that officers of the Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia for the Kursk Region in the Belovsky District, with the assistance of local residents, detained a serviceman of the 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the interrogation, the report noted, the prisoner reported that he had received an order to shoot everyone on the spot if the local population resisted. And when entering populated areas of the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were engaged in looting and took with them everything they could carry. Later, a video of the interrogation provided by the FSB Public Relations Center was published. The prisoner was a fighter from the 2nd squad, 2nd platoon, 6th company, 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade, Ruslan Poltoratsky. He said that they were transferred to the border on July 28, and that they were ordered to kill residents of the Kursk region by a commander with the call sign Strizh. But Poltoratsky spoke about more than just this. Among other things, he reported on the foreigners who invaded Russia with them. "When we crossed the border with Russia, at first I thought there was interference with the radio, but then I understood the speech. They were speaking English, Polish, maybe even French. It was strange, I didn't understand anything. I said into the radio: "Repeat, repeat," and there was some gibberish. When we had already taken up positions, we also went on air with the command, we went on air with ours. And I also heard something being said in English, something about houses, house, and I heard shooting. And even though we were quite far away, the screams were heard separately,” Poltoratsky recalled. His words are far from the only evidence of the presence of foreign mercenaries in the Kursk region. “A missile strike with a thermobaric warhead on a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries on the southern outskirts of Sudzha killed 15 militants,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported on August 10. And soon some of the mercenaries were caught on video. "GAMARJOBA!" On Thursday, August 8, two videos appeared on The Dead District account on the social network X. The first showed Ukrainian troops firing mortars. The second showed Ukrainian soldiers taking cover. "Georgians in the Kursk People's Republic," the first video was captioned. "Georgians together with Ukrainians in Kursk (Kursk region. - Ed.)," the second one was captioned. The American publication The Warzone reported that the Georgian Legion* (a terrorist organization banned in Russia. — Ed.) is participating in the fighting. At the same time, a source familiar with the situation told the publication that a total of about 120 militants from the organization are taking part in the fighting in the region. Two days later, on August 10, a video appeared on social media showing Ukrainian soldiers posing in front of the House of Culture in the village of Poroz, in the Grayvoronsky District of the Belgorod Region. "Good health to you. Battalion 252 is in the village of Poroz, Belgorod Region," said one of the soldiers. The soldiers were holding two flags. One was the 252nd Marine Battalion of Ukraine, the other was the Georgian flag with signatures on it. The soldier holding the Georgian flag resembled the soldier from the video from August 8. Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov first stated that the situation was being looked into and entry to Poroz was closed. And already on the evening of August 10, Gladkov published a video from Poroz on his Telegram channel. "Two of our residents from the village of Poroz in the Grayvoron district were forcibly detained by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They are fine now - they are alive, healthy and are with their families. We met with one of the families, talked with relatives. Of course, everyone was very worried, did not sleep all night. Thank God, everything worked out," Gladkov wrote. The participation of Georgian mercenaries in the invasion of the Kursk region, as well as in reconnaissance in force in the Belgorod region, among other things, coincided with the 16th anniversary of the operation to force Georgia to peace. As a number of commentators have noted, the participation of Georgian mercenaries could have had several goals. Firstly, it was a kind of "revenge" on Russia. Secondly, if the mercenaries were killed or their symbols were desecrated, this would have caused an increase in Russophobic sentiments in Georgia, creating further difficulties for the pragmatic government of the republic, which does not want to sacrifice the interests of the country for the sake of the West. Moreover, it is not only Georgian mercenaries who want to achieve “revenge” in the Kursk region. GERMAN HAWKS On August 12, in a commentary for the publication Die Welt, retired Bundeswehr General Klaus Wittmann called for the lifting of restrictions on the use of Western weapons in Russia by Ukraine. "I am a historian by education. I know what role Kursk played in the Great Patriotic War. And it is there that Russia is now being hurt! And this is simply grandiose! "What you say here about the West, about Western permissions and restrictions, I can only repeat clearly: the restrictions that we impose on Ukraine, on the use of Western weapons, I consider them absurd, and they help Putin. They only work for Russia. And this fear of escalation must stop!" Wittmann said. Moreover, this was not the first German justification for the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region. Earlier, the German Foreign Ministry stated that "Ukraine has the right to self-defense, enshrined in international law. This right is not limited to its own territory." At times, German politicians even found completely Jesuitical arguments. “The question of whether Western weapons were involved (in the invasion – Ed.) does not arise, since after delivery they become Ukrainian weapons,” said Bundestag member and foreign policy expert for the Christian Democratic Union Roderich Kiesewetter. However, Wittmann's words indicate that the day is not far off when German politicians will begin to justify the direct use of the Bundeswehr against Russia. But for German soldiers, as well as Polish, French and many others, if there is a place on the fields of Russia, it is only among the coffins that are not alien to them. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Looks like instead of Russia succeeding, their ignorant government is calling for more evacuations: https://x.com/Tendar/status/1823812618127335931 Russians killing Russians inside Russia: https://x.com/Tendar/status/1823767248919478411 It appears the Russians are lying about Ukraine in Russia: https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1823793625802924502 Make your choice people: https://x.com/GlasnostGone/status/1823716680952111541 https://x.com/Tendar/status/1823695549591179736 https://x.com/pravda_eng/status/1823791699749167414 |
| Posted by: Optioned Rice 2024-08-14 16:31 |
| #1 Putin calls Stalin: "The Nazis are in Kursk, everyone is fleeing, what should I do? Stalin: "Do what I did in 1943: Send the best Ukrainian troops and ask the Americans to send weapons!" |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2024-08-14 10:45 |