Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in televised remarks on Friday that statements by Ukrainian officials about strike facilities in Russian-held Crimea signaled “an escalation of the conflict openly encouraged by the United States and its NATO allies.” “The deep and open involvement of the U.S.” in the war in Ukraine “essentially puts the U.S. on the brink of becoming part of the conflict,” Ryabkov said. “We don’t want an escalation, we would like to avoid a situation where the US becomes part of the conflict, but so far we have not seen their readiness to look deeply and seriously at these warnings,” he said. In Crimea – the peninsula Russia seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported overnight near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Russia said was fire from its own air defenses. In Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at a munitions dump in Belgorod province, near the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. Residents were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot near the village of Timonovo, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Friday. About 1,100 people live in the villages of Timonovo and Soloti, but there were no casualties from the fire that broke out late Thursday night, the governor said. Kyiv has cultivated an air of obscurity around such incidents by withholding official comment on explosions and fires in Crimea or inside Russia, while implying that Ukrainian forces were responsible, using long-range weapons or sabotage. Last week, nine Russian warplanes were reportedly destroyed at an air base in Crimea, demonstrating both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ ability to strike deep behind enemy lines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to Ukrainian forces carrying out attacks behind enemy lines after the explosions in Crimea, which Russia blamed on “sabotage”. (Al Jazeera)
“Guerrilla”
Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, told Al Jazeera that Ukrainian attacks on Russian-controlled territory demonstrate Kiev’s growing military capabilities and the frustration of Moscow’s war efforts. “I think this shows that Ukraine is now increasingly striking Russia’s strategic depth in terms of its supply lines. And this is very important given that the Russians are still trying to carry out offensive actions, in particular, around Kharkiv right now and in the Donbas region, and also trying to counter the offensive that Ukraine is spreading in the Kherson region in the south,” Wolff stated. he said. “So the disruption of Russian supplies will make Russian efforts on all three front lines much more difficult, and this is obviously a very important development from the Ukrainian point of view. “I think it’s definitely a new trend that we’ve seen there,” he added. “But, I think overall, it’s on a trajectory where we’ve seen Ukraine use both more sophisticated weapons that are supplied from the West, but also extend its reach into territory controlled by Russia through what you might call guerrilla warfare or guerrilla warfare. war. And that’s obviously a very worrying thing for Russia, not only in the sense that it might lose control of these territories but also that it would undermine their overall war effort,” Wolff continued. “It also potentially deals a blow to Russian hopes of being able to hold referendums, as they’ve announced in the Kherson region, in order to sort of go on the offensive there again and claim those territories either as independent states or as part of it. of Russia”.
“It sure looks bad”
Russian officials said no one was injured in the latest incidents in Crimea or Belgorod. They also said they shot down Ukrainian drones in Belbek and Kerch. “It sure looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective,” former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt tweeted, with video showing huge flames and smoke in the night sky, allegedly at the Russian base in Belbek. Reuters could not confirm the authenticity of the video. This is reported to be from the large 🇷🇺 Belbek Air Base outside Sevastopol in occupied Crimea 🇺🇦. It certainly looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective. pic.twitter.com/uXeKsDNL0R — Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) August 18, 2022 Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced several strikes overnight behind Russian lines in southern Kherson province, including on the bridge over the Kakhovka Dam, one of the last routes for Russia to supply thousands of troops to its west bank Dnieper river. “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. In recent days, he has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. Meanwhile, Russian forces have stepped up shelling of civilian areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in recent days in what British intelligence has described as an apparent attempt to force Ukraine to keep troops in the region. Seventeen people were killed and 42 wounded in two separate Russian attacks there in the past two days, the governor said Thursday. Five more rockets hit the city early Friday, killing at least one person, he said. Moscow denies targeting civilians. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, saying it was aimed at demilitarizing Ukraine and protecting Russian speakers in what President Vladimir Putin called historic Russian land.
title: “More Explosions In Russian Controlled Areas Away From Ukraine S Front Lines News About The Russia Ukraine War Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-05” author: “Charlene Stroh”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in televised remarks on Friday that statements by Ukrainian officials about strike facilities in Russian-held Crimea signaled “an escalation of the conflict openly encouraged by the United States and its NATO allies.” “The deep and open involvement of the U.S.” in the war in Ukraine “essentially puts the U.S. on the brink of becoming part of the conflict,” Ryabkov said. “We don’t want an escalation, we would like to avoid a situation where the US becomes part of the conflict, but so far we have not seen their readiness to look deeply and seriously at these warnings,” he said. In Crimea – the peninsula Russia seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported overnight near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Russia said was fire from its own air defenses. In Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at a munitions dump in Belgorod province, near the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. Residents were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot near the village of Timonovo, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Friday. About 1,100 people live in the villages of Timonovo and Soloti, but there were no casualties from the fire that broke out late Thursday night, the governor said. Kyiv has cultivated an air of obscurity around such incidents by withholding official comment on explosions and fires in Crimea or inside Russia, while implying that Ukrainian forces were responsible, using long-range weapons or sabotage. Last week, nine Russian warplanes were reportedly destroyed at an air base in Crimea, demonstrating both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ ability to strike deep behind enemy lines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to Ukrainian forces carrying out attacks behind enemy lines after the explosions in Crimea, which Russia blamed on “sabotage”. (Al Jazeera)
“Guerrilla”
Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, told Al Jazeera that Ukrainian attacks on Russian-controlled territory demonstrate Kiev’s growing military capabilities and the frustration of Moscow’s war efforts. “I think this shows that Ukraine is now increasingly striking Russia’s strategic depth in terms of its supply lines. And this is very important given that the Russians are still trying to carry out offensive actions, in particular, around Kharkiv right now and in the Donbas region, and also trying to counter the offensive that Ukraine is spreading in the Kherson region in the south,” Wolff stated. he said. “So the disruption of Russian supplies will make Russian efforts on all three front lines much more difficult, and this is obviously a very important development from the Ukrainian point of view. “I think it’s definitely a new trend that we’ve seen there,” he added. “But, I think overall, it’s on a trajectory where we’ve seen Ukraine use both more sophisticated weapons that are supplied from the West, but also extend its reach into territory controlled by Russia through what you might call guerrilla warfare or guerrilla warfare. war. And that’s obviously a very worrying thing for Russia, not only in the sense that it might lose control of these territories but also that it would undermine their overall war effort,” Wolff continued. “It also potentially deals a blow to Russian hopes of being able to hold referendums, as they’ve announced in the Kherson region, in order to sort of go on the offensive there again and claim those territories either as independent states or as part of it. of Russia”.
“It sure looks bad”
Russian officials said no one was injured in the latest incidents in Crimea or Belgorod. They also said they shot down Ukrainian drones in Belbek and Kerch. “It sure looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective,” former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt tweeted, with video showing huge flames and smoke in the night sky, allegedly at the Russian base in Belbek. Reuters could not confirm the authenticity of the video. This is reported to be from the large 🇷🇺 Belbek Air Base outside Sevastopol in occupied Crimea 🇺🇦. It certainly looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective. pic.twitter.com/uXeKsDNL0R — Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) August 18, 2022 Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced several strikes overnight behind Russian lines in southern Kherson province, including on the bridge over the Kakhovka Dam, one of the last routes for Russia to supply thousands of troops to its west bank Dnieper river. “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. In recent days, he has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. Meanwhile, Russian forces have stepped up shelling of civilian areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in recent days in what British intelligence has described as an apparent attempt to force Ukraine to keep troops in the region. Seventeen people were killed and 42 wounded in two separate Russian attacks there in the past two days, the governor said Thursday. Five more rockets hit the city early Friday, killing at least one person, he said. Moscow denies targeting civilians. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, saying it was aimed at demilitarizing Ukraine and protecting Russian speakers in what President Vladimir Putin called historic Russian land.
title: “More Explosions In Russian Controlled Areas Away From Ukraine S Front Lines News About The Russia Ukraine War Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-06” author: “Jesse Bracey”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in televised remarks on Friday that statements by Ukrainian officials about strike facilities in Russian-held Crimea signaled “an escalation of the conflict openly encouraged by the United States and its NATO allies.” “The deep and open involvement of the U.S.” in the war in Ukraine “essentially puts the U.S. on the brink of becoming part of the conflict,” Ryabkov said. “We don’t want an escalation, we would like to avoid a situation where the US becomes part of the conflict, but so far we have not seen their readiness to look deeply and seriously at these warnings,” he said. In Crimea – the peninsula Russia seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported overnight near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Russia said was fire from its own air defenses. In Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at a munitions dump in Belgorod province, near the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. Residents were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot near the village of Timonovo, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Friday. About 1,100 people live in the villages of Timonovo and Soloti, but there were no casualties from the fire that broke out late Thursday night, the governor said. Kyiv has cultivated an air of obscurity around such incidents by withholding official comment on explosions and fires in Crimea or inside Russia, while implying that Ukrainian forces were responsible, using long-range weapons or sabotage. Last week, nine Russian warplanes were reportedly destroyed at an air base in Crimea, demonstrating both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ ability to strike deep behind enemy lines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to Ukrainian forces carrying out attacks behind enemy lines after the explosions in Crimea, which Russia blamed on “sabotage”. (Al Jazeera)
“Guerrilla”
Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, told Al Jazeera that Ukrainian attacks on Russian-controlled territory demonstrate Kiev’s growing military capabilities and the frustration of Moscow’s war efforts. “I think this shows that Ukraine is now increasingly striking Russia’s strategic depth in terms of its supply lines. And this is very important given that the Russians are still trying to carry out offensive actions, in particular, around Kharkiv right now and in the Donbas region, and also trying to counter the offensive that Ukraine is spreading in the Kherson region in the south,” Wolff stated. he said. “So the disruption of Russian supplies will make Russian efforts on all three front lines much more difficult, and this is obviously a very important development from the Ukrainian point of view. “I think it’s definitely a new trend that we’ve seen there,” he added. “But, I think overall, it’s on a trajectory where we’ve seen Ukraine use both more sophisticated weapons that are supplied from the West, but also extend its reach into territory controlled by Russia through what you might call guerrilla warfare or guerrilla warfare. war. And that’s obviously a very worrying thing for Russia, not only in the sense that it might lose control of these territories but also that it would undermine their overall war effort,” Wolff continued. “It also potentially deals a blow to Russian hopes of being able to hold referendums, as they’ve announced in the Kherson region, in order to sort of go on the offensive there again and claim those territories either as independent states or as part of it. of Russia”.
“It sure looks bad”
Russian officials said no one was injured in the latest incidents in Crimea or Belgorod. They also said they shot down Ukrainian drones in Belbek and Kerch. “It sure looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective,” former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt tweeted, with video showing huge flames and smoke in the night sky, allegedly at the Russian base in Belbek. Reuters could not confirm the authenticity of the video. This is reported to be from the large 🇷🇺 Belbek Air Base outside Sevastopol in occupied Crimea 🇺🇦. It certainly looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective. pic.twitter.com/uXeKsDNL0R — Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) August 18, 2022 Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced several strikes overnight behind Russian lines in southern Kherson province, including on the bridge over the Kakhovka Dam, one of the last routes for Russia to supply thousands of troops to its west bank Dnieper river. “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. In recent days, he has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. Meanwhile, Russian forces have stepped up shelling of civilian areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in recent days in what British intelligence has described as an apparent attempt to force Ukraine to keep troops in the region. Seventeen people were killed and 42 wounded in two separate Russian attacks there in the past two days, the governor said Thursday. Five more rockets hit the city early Friday, killing at least one person, he said. Moscow denies targeting civilians. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, saying it was aimed at demilitarizing Ukraine and protecting Russian speakers in what President Vladimir Putin called historic Russian land.
title: “More Explosions In Russian Controlled Areas Away From Ukraine S Front Lines News About The Russia Ukraine War Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-29” author: “Jean Anschutz”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in televised remarks on Friday that statements by Ukrainian officials about strike facilities in Russian-held Crimea signaled “an escalation of the conflict openly encouraged by the United States and its NATO allies.” “The deep and open involvement of the U.S.” in the war in Ukraine “essentially puts the U.S. on the brink of becoming part of the conflict,” Ryabkov said. “We don’t want an escalation, we would like to avoid a situation where the US becomes part of the conflict, but so far we have not seen their readiness to look deeply and seriously at these warnings,” he said. In Crimea – the peninsula Russia seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported overnight near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Russia said was fire from its own air defenses. In Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at a munitions dump in Belgorod province, near the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. Residents were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot near the village of Timonovo, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Friday. About 1,100 people live in the villages of Timonovo and Soloti, but there were no casualties from the fire that broke out late Thursday night, the governor said. Kyiv has cultivated an air of obscurity around such incidents by withholding official comment on explosions and fires in Crimea or inside Russia, while implying that Ukrainian forces were responsible, using long-range weapons or sabotage. Last week, nine Russian warplanes were reportedly destroyed at an air base in Crimea, demonstrating both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ ability to strike deep behind enemy lines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to Ukrainian forces carrying out attacks behind enemy lines after the explosions in Crimea, which Russia blamed on “sabotage”. (Al Jazeera)
“Guerrilla”
Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, told Al Jazeera that Ukrainian attacks on Russian-controlled territory demonstrate Kiev’s growing military capabilities and the frustration of Moscow’s war efforts. “I think this shows that Ukraine is now increasingly striking Russia’s strategic depth in terms of its supply lines. And this is very important given that the Russians are still trying to carry out offensive actions, in particular, around Kharkiv right now and in the Donbas region, and also trying to counter the offensive that Ukraine is spreading in the Kherson region in the south,” Wolff stated. he said. “So the disruption of Russian supplies will make Russian efforts on all three front lines much more difficult, and this is obviously a very important development from the Ukrainian point of view. “I think it’s definitely a new trend that we’ve seen there,” he added. “But, I think overall, it’s on a trajectory where we’ve seen Ukraine use both more sophisticated weapons that are supplied from the West, but also extend its reach into territory controlled by Russia through what you might call guerrilla warfare or guerrilla warfare. war. And that’s obviously a very worrying thing for Russia, not only in the sense that it might lose control of these territories but also that it would undermine their overall war effort,” Wolff continued. “It also potentially deals a blow to Russian hopes of being able to hold referendums, as they’ve announced in the Kherson region, in order to sort of go on the offensive there again and claim those territories either as independent states or as part of it. of Russia”.
“It sure looks bad”
Russian officials said no one was injured in the latest incidents in Crimea or Belgorod. They also said they shot down Ukrainian drones in Belbek and Kerch. “It sure looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective,” former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt tweeted, with video showing huge flames and smoke in the night sky, allegedly at the Russian base in Belbek. Reuters could not confirm the authenticity of the video. This is reported to be from the large 🇷🇺 Belbek Air Base outside Sevastopol in occupied Crimea 🇺🇦. It certainly looks bad – or good – depending on the perspective. pic.twitter.com/uXeKsDNL0R — Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) August 18, 2022 Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced several strikes overnight behind Russian lines in southern Kherson province, including on the bridge over the Kakhovka Dam, one of the last routes for Russia to supply thousands of troops to its west bank Dnieper river. “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. In recent days, he has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. Meanwhile, Russian forces have stepped up shelling of civilian areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in recent days in what British intelligence has described as an apparent attempt to force Ukraine to keep troops in the region. Seventeen people were killed and 42 wounded in two separate Russian attacks there in the past two days, the governor said Thursday. Five more rockets hit the city early Friday, killing at least one person, he said. Moscow denies targeting civilians. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, saying it was aimed at demilitarizing Ukraine and protecting Russian speakers in what President Vladimir Putin called historic Russian land.
