The Kremlin's reaction to the RDC and Legion of "Freedom of Russia" in Belgorod region testifies to "increased alarm" - ISW

This is stated in the report of the American Institute of War Study in June 1. Thus, on June 1, volunteers visited the area of ​​the new Tavolzhanka (3. 5 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border) and struck there in Russian positions, as well as in the city of Shebekino of Belgorod region (7 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border).

Authorities in the Russian Federation stated that it reflected all the attacks on the border, and the governor of Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov in turn stated that they were not at all in the territory of Belgorod region. Russian milblogists reported that 20 Russian border guards and 20 conscripts, as well as Russian aircraft-artillery units, repelled the staff of the RDC and Legion "Freedom of Russia", who tried to spend a raid near Shebekino.

According to analysts, the operations of Russian volunteers in the Belgorod region are raid. And they resemble raids, according to the US Army doctrine, when small assault groups quickly penetrate the hostile territory to obtain information, disruption of enemy forces or destruction of objects. The raids are completed with a planned waste from a narrowly defined target zone and are not intended to establish long -term control over the territory.

"The answers of Russian officials and millblogrators to a limited raid in the Belgorod region indicate that increased alarm in Ukraine in Ukraine in the Russian information space," analysts say. Some Russian Milblogists have used the situation in Belgorod region to criticize the Russian leadership, while others claimed that limited raids are precursors of Ukrainian counter -offensive operations.

Other milblogists argued that raids in the Belgorod region are an attempt to distract Russian forces from important areas of the front in Ukraine to the border regions before potential Ukrainian counter -offensive operations. We will remind that the fighters of the "Russian volunteer corps" in Shebekin in Belgorod region were hit with the RSZV "Grad" on the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.