Videos released online by one of the Russian “guerrilla” groups that launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine into Russia’s Belgorod region show that the raid involved US-made military equipment, including Humvee multipurpose vehicles and other types. mine-resistant machines International Maxxpro 1224, reports Guardian.

Footage released by the pro-Ukrainian group the Russian Volunteer Corps (ROV), probably before their invasion along with members of the Russian Legion of Freedom, shows vehicles in a convoy ahead of a cross-border raid marked with white crosses, the same symbol used by the Ukrainian military as a sign of friendship. forces

Some members of the group that participated in the raid wore yellow identification bands similar to those worn by some Ukrainian units.

Although Ukrainian officials have been tight-lipped about the raid, suggesting it involved Russian citizens fighting against Putin, it likely raises questions about where the vehicles involved in the raid came from and what prior information the U.S. had about the planned invasion in particular. which is the second consecutive day of fighting in Russian villages near the border with Ukraine.

After the first day of fighting, Russia said it had captured one of the MaxxPro machines, although this could not be independently verified, the Guardian noted.

However, Ukraine Weapons Tracker has published an image of a MaxxPro allegedly captured by the Russians and used by pro-Ukrainian Russian units during the Belgorod raid.

On Monday, an official representative of the US State Department confirmed the US policy that it does not support Ukraine’s military actions outside Ukraine’s borders.

“We have made it very clear to Ukrainians that we do not allow or encourage attacks outside the borders of Ukraine, but I think it is important to step back and remind everyone and remind the world that, of course, Russia started this war. “, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.

“It is Russia that continues to attack the civilian population of Ukraine. Russia is targeting schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure. Therefore, Ukraine itself decides how it wants to conduct its military operations, but Russia was the aggressor in this war.”

If the vehicles are confirmed to belong to MaxxPro, there will be a lot of interest in how the armed group, some with links to neo-Nazis and the far right, obtained them.

In October of last year, the US announced the delivery of 200 MaxxPros to Ukraine, and soon the vehicles began arriving in Ukraine, The Guardian reports.

However, the quoted source notes, the MaxxPros The Guardian saw in service with the Ukrainian army appeared to be painted in a lighter color than those seen in footage published online.

Cross-border raid by pro-Ukrainian Russians

Russia is facing increasing threats on its border with Ukraine, with the worst recent incident being an incursion by an anti-regime group that launched an “anti-terrorist operation” in Russia’s Belgorod region, British intelligence said on Tuesday morning.

On May 22, the Volunteer Corps of the Russian Federation and the Russian Legion of Freedom announced that they had crossed the border and were “liberating” the settlements of the Belgorod region from the current Russian authorities: they started with the villages of Kozinka and Hora-Podol, but they want the “liberation” of all of Russia.

The governor of the Belgorod region of Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced late on Monday that most of the residents of the Graivoron district had left their homes.

During a raid by pro-Ukrainian Russian units across the border in the Belgorod region at the “Grayvoron” checkpoint, a BTR-82A wheeled armored personnel carrier was captured, reports Ukrainian weapons tracker.

AND OSINT defender or War Translated publishes a video of a soldier of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” on an alleged BTR-82A, which was captured from Russian security forces during the fighting in the city of Kozinka, Belgorod Region.