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A few days ago, pinpoint strikes and sabotage attacks by the Ukrainian army on the Russian territory have significantly increased. Basically, the Ukrainian army carries out small sorties and uses explosives as well as rockets to harm Russian military, communication facilities and civilians.
«Russia will strike Ukrainian decision-making centers if attempts to sabotage Russian territory continue», Defense Ministry spokesman maj.-gen. Igor Konashenkov said. “We see attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation. If such cases continue, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will strike decision-making centers, including those in Kyiv, which the Russian army has so far refrained from doing,” he said.
Since the launch of the Russian military special operation, Ukrainian fighters have repeatedly staged diversions in Russia’s border regions.
On March 29, they struck the Belgorod region with Tochka-U rockets, causing explosions and fires in a warehouse deployed at a temporary military unit location and injuring eight people.
Three days later, on April 1, two Ukrainian helicopters invaded Russian territory and shelled an oil depot in Belgorod and then a printing press in the Severny industrial park.
Railroad tracks in the Belgorod region were damaged this week. In addition, villages and border crossing points in Belgorod and Kursk regions were repeatedly shelled.
On April 12, the governor of the Belgorod Region claimed that the Ukrainian army had undermined the railroad tracks. The damaged railroad track in the Shebekinsky district was used for the Belgorod-Nizhegol railbus. As noted by the RF Armed Forces, Ukrainian security forces do not set out to undermine Russia’s logistics chains, as they do not have enough resources to do so, the main task is to intimidate the population.
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On April 13, Ukraine shelled a border checkpoint in the Kornevsky District of the Kursk region. The governor of Kursk Oblast said that retaliatory fire was able to repel the strike and there were no casualties.
On April 14, there was another incident on the border. Authorities in Kursk Oblast reported small arms fire at a checkpoint in the village of Gordeevka on the border with Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. The firing points were suppressed, and there were no casualties or destruction on the Russian side. The Ukrainian side reports shelling of the border crossing point in Chernihiv Oblast, already from the Russian side.
On the same day, the Ukrainian army and launched several attacks in the Russian Bryansk region. The Russian Investigation Committee confirmed the attack. It was revealed that two Ukrainian military helicopters carried out at least 6 airstrikes targeting civilians in the village of Klimovo. The state of emergency was introduced in the Klimovsk district of the Bryansk region, where as a result of the AFU attack eight people were injured and more than 100 residential buildings were damaged, according to the governor of the region.
Later, UAF shelling on other villages, including Zhuravlevka, Spodaryushino, were reported on the same day.
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Explosions in the sky were noted in the Belgorod region. Belgorod residents report that at 10 a.m. on April 15 there were two explosions in the sky.
Ukraine’s strikes on Russian territory have been launched to sow panic among the civilian population and possibly to divert Russian forces. However, most attempts by the Ukrainian army are unsuccessful. And those that do succeed are mostly directed at civilians. Terrorist threat levels were introduced to warn the population. A yellow (medium of three) terrorist alert level was introduced in Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk oblasts, as well as in some areas of Voronezh Oblast and Krasnodar Krai, and the north of Crimea.
In response to the attacks on the Russian territory, Russian cruise missiles hit military facilities on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.
