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The war in Ukraine appears to be taking a new turn. Reports are piling up that attacks are being carried out on Russian soil. In mid-week, Russian opponents of Putin reportedly shot at a car and attacked two villages in Bryansk Oblast, near Ukraine. An explosion caused by a drone strike occurred in Kolomna, Moscow region, on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, 70, has convened a special session of the National Security Council for Friday, according to the Russian domestic secret service FSB. His military elite urged him to take harsh retaliatory measures, including targeted attacks against civilians. “A Russian parliamentarian is demanding that Putin now declare war on Ukraine,” Russia expert Ulrich Schmid (57) told Blick.
However, Schmid does not believe that Putin will further increase the level of escalation. “At the moment, the prevailing view in Russia is that Bryansk was a terrorist attack.”
Behind the attacks in Bryansk, apparently, are representatives of the “Volunteer Corps”, which has hardly appeared until now. Schmid: «It is led by Denis Nikitin, a Russian neo-Nazi. He says he wants to free Russia from Putin’s dictatorship.”
It is not clear on whose behalf the corps works. Nikitin claims to have received permission from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (45), but this has not been confirmed by the Ukrainian side. “The Ukrainian government is carefully keeping its distance from this formation,” says Schmid.
Schmid does not rule out further acts of Ukrainian sabotage on Russian soil. However, Schmid does not believe that the Ukrainian army will cross the border and attack the Russians in their country: “Firstly, the Ukrainian army does not have the resources for this and secondly, an offensive war against Russia is not one of the Ukrainian war goals of the government.”
Source: Blick
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