Russia says they are a front for the Ukrainian military; Ukraine insists they are Russian dissidents. The reality is somewhere in between. Read more here:
afternoon of May 22nd footage emerged of two grinning pro-Ukrainian fighters in the midst of a cross-border raid into Russia. “The key to the border has been broken in half,” says one, quoting from “Everything is Going to Plan”, a cult anthem by Civil Defence, a Russian rock band. But the attack that the two men had helped engineer showed that, for Russia, things were very much not going to plan.
As news tumbled in from Belgorod, Ukraine’s presidential spokesman, Mykhailo Podolyak, said his government was a bystander. Any tanks used in the attack could simply have been bought at a military store, he quipped, mimicking the bogus narratives used by Russia when its hardware first appeared in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Andrei Chernak, a spokesman for, said that the fighting inside Russia was part of a “national uprising” by Russians.
A high-level Ukrainian intelligence source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, offers a more realistic assessment. Two ideas underpinned the operation in Belgorod, he says. The first was to undermine Mr Putin’s domestic authority: if a strongman can’t guarantee security, what is the point of him? The second was to pull Russian military reserves away from critical sections of the front lines, in the run-up to a long-planned.
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