Moscow (EFE)
In addition, the governor of that Russian federated entity has reported this morning that a drone, possibly the one shot down, dropped an explosive device on one of the streets of Belgorod, without causing casualties.
According to images spread on social networks, the explosive device did not explode.
Last Monday, a group of more than 70 saboteurs, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, launched an armed raid using armored vehicles in the Belgorod region from Ukraine.
The action was taken over by groups of Russians fighting on the side of kyiv: the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom for Russia Legion.
At least two Russian soldiers were killed and four others wounded in the attack, according to the Russian daily “Kommersant”.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that all Russian saboteurs had been annihilated, although the Russian Volunteer Corps (CVR), one of the two groups that participated in the raid, today denied having had any casualties.
“We do not know which columns Mr. (Igor) Konashenkov (spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry) annihilated, but the Russian Volunteer Corps has no casualties,” the TRC said on its telegram channel.
The volunteers also warn in their publication that “as for the photos that circulate in the networks of dead ‘saboteurs’, our combatants carry multicameras, and not Pixels. To take account”.
Ukraine expects a Russian withdrawal
According to kyiv, the raid on Belgorod may force Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said in an interview broadcast last night that Russia was faced with the dilemma of regrouping its forces to suppress the armed incursion of anti-Putin Russian volunteers into Belgorod or continuing to send “all its forces” to the fronts of Ukraine.
“The Russians are faced with the question of regrouping their forces because they currently need it to calm the situation in the Belgorod region,” Malyar said in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda. “And right now they have sent all their forces to the Ukrainian fronts.”
The deputy minister, who once again denied Ukrainian involvement in the armed incursion into Belgorod, concluded that the citizens of the Russian Federation have assumed responsibility (for the incursion)” and that therefore “this can only be an internal matter” .-
