The Belgorod and Kursk regions in southern Russia appear to be turning into a new front in the Russo-Ukrainian war as fighting on the other side of the border, this time on the Russian side, intensifies, along with a relatively safe information and propaganda war.
The news coming from the Ukrainian and Russian sides is completely different in relation to the same region: the Russians talk about the intensification of Ukrainian aggression on Russian soil, which has lost the attention of the West due to Moscow’s many years of propaganda efforts, and the Ukrainians absolve themselves of any responsibility. and not report anything about areas outside the Russian-Ukrainian border.
After numerous cross-border airstrikes in the Kursk and Belgorod regions in recent months, what the Russians say was a serious incident on Monday: Ukrainian armored vehicles drove into Russian territory and occupied a tiny patch of legal Russian territory (not one was unilaterally annexed last September and belongs to Ukraine).
On the Ukrainian side, it was reported that this was not the activity of Ukrainian forces, but a movement of Russians in opposition to the Putin regime called Free Russia.
Fighting continued on Tuesday with what they call Ukrainian commandos to push them out of Russian territory, the Russians said, with the TASS news agency saying “the fighting went beyond the Ukrainian border with the goal of finally destroying the invaders.”
The Russian investigative agency opened a case of a “terrorist act” in the region, which does not necessarily mean admitting that it was a pro-Russian pro-regime, as Ukrainian terrorists are often called in Russia, and trying to defend itself since Monday as an “anti-terrorist operation.”
Also on Tuesday, the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, spoke about Ukrainian shelling of three villages in the Korenevsky district, which also led to a power outage for about 400 consumers there.
At the same time, Belgorod authorities spoke about several Ukrainian drones shot down by Russian air defenses early on Tuesday morning.
Source: Reuters, TASS
Source: Kathimerini
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