2024-03-12 14:16:32
Russian fighters opposed to the Kremlin claimed responsibility for attacks in Russia, near the border, a few hours after strikes by the Ukrainian army.
Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine said they infiltrated Russia on Tuesday March 2 to carry out ground attacks against border regions, which Moscow’s army claimed to have repelled.
These attacks come three days before the start of the Russian presidential election, which should see Vladimir Putin triumph, in the absence of any opposition.
· The “Freedom of Russia” legion claims the capture of a Russian village
“We have crossed the border,” the pro-kyiv Russian volunteer unit Legion Freedom of Russia said in the morning, publishing a video on Telegram in which three armored vehicles can be seen driving in the dark on a road. campaign.
Shortly after, the unit claimed to have “destroyed” a Russian armored vehicle in the village of Tiotkino in the Kursk region, located in eastern Ukraine.
Around noon, the “legion” announced that the village of Tiotkino was “completely under the control of the Russian liberation forces.” “Putin’s army is quickly leaving the village, leaving positions and heavy weapons behind,” she wrote on Telegram.
The Russian Freedom Legion is not its first coup and had already claimed an armed incursion into Russian territory in May 2023.
· The “Siberian battalion” evokes “fierce fighting” in Russia
The “Siberian battalion”, a unit of Russian fighters integrated into the Ukrainian army, also announced that it had carried out an offensive on Russian territory, without specifying where exactly.
“As promised, we are bringing freedom and justice to our Russian land,” the unit announced on Telegram, referring to “fierce fighting”.
The battalion also called on Russians to ignore the March 15-16-17 presidential election. “We can only change things for the better with guns in hand,” she said, describing the vote as fiction.
· Russia claims to have foiled ‘breakthrough’
The Russian army declared that it had repelled multiple attacks from Ukraine during the night and in the morning, ensuring that it had prevented any breakthrough into Russian territory.
The armed forces “failed an attempt by the Kiev regime to make a breakthrough into the territory of Russia in the Belgorod and Kursk regions,” the Defense Ministry said.
The Russian governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, confirmed the attack and reported a slight injury, also denying any “breakthrough” by the attackers.
The authorities on Tuesday ordered the closure of schools in the Russian city of Kursk, capital of the eponymous region, bordering Ukraine. “Due to recent events, I have decided that schoolchildren will study remotely” until Friday “March 15,” Igor Koutsak, the mayor of Kursk, wrote on Telegram.
· Numerous Ukrainian drone strikes
This armed incursion comes after a major Ukrainian drone attack in Russia on the night of Monday to Tuesday. According to Russian authorities, Ukrainian drones particularly targeted Orel and Kstovo, two Russian towns located approximately 160 km and 800 km respectively from the Ukrainian border, setting fire to energy depots there.
The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed to have shot down 25 Ukrainian aircraft in the regions of Moscow and Leningrad, as well as in those of Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk, all three of which border Ukraine.
In the industrial zone of Kstovo, in the Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod, an oil refinery of the Russian giant Lukoil caught fire according to the regional governor, Gleb Nikitin. The fire was then brought under control, according to the state agency Tass.
The governor of the Orel region, Andrei Klychkov, also announced that a fuel complex had been attacked and that the “situation was completely under control”.
Russia also claimed on Tuesday to have captured a village in eastern Ukraine, Nevelské, near the city of Donetsk already under its control.
François Blanchard with AFP
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