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5 Russian speaking separatists killed in gunfight in Lugansk
Direct translation of the article. Edited. Narrative from Russkaya Vesna and from Chris CovertUkrainian saboteurs today killed five servicemen of the People's Militia of the LPR. This was reported in the press service of the department. "On June 11, this year, a sabotage group of a separate special operations center "West" (the former 8th Special Forces Regiment of the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) at the observation post of the People's Militia in the area of the settlement of Golubovskoe of the Luhansk People's Republic five militiamen were killed in cold blood," the message says. "Our servicemen were shot in the head with special weapons. At the same time, one of them was killed by a shot made from a foreign-made sniper rifle. The rest were shot at point-blank by the Ukrainian sabotage group that penetrated the territory of the post," the NM LNR noted. Colonel Ivan Filiponenko, a spokesman for the Lugansk People's Army claimed the operation which led to the deaths of five Lugansk soldiers was on orders to exacerbate the situation at the front, which came directly from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Filiponenko also pointed that that they have data about American involvement in training and supplying the shooters in the incident. From VKontakte, military journalist Vladimir Orlov says probes of separatists' positions by Ukrainian special forces, along with artillery shots and drone overflights are a routine occurrence. Orlov also said the soldiers were part of the "Ghost Battalion" a formation first formed in 2014 a the start of the war. "Ghost Battalion" base of operations is in Alchevsk. From the Live Journal of Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin, a separatist militiaman with the call sign of "Joker DNR", said that ten special forces groups were training in Mariupol since June 9th, six for operations in Donetsk and four for Lugansk. Claims Joker DNR: "The main task of these groups is to work in the gray zone along the entire front line, with the aim of unleashing local clashes with Donetsk and Luhansk units from 10 to 17 June. At the same time, in the area of work of these groups, there will be Ukrainian and Western journalists who will have to film aggressive material about the aggression of an aggressive enemy on the eve of the meeting between Putin and Biden." Rozhin pointed out that last May, heavy flighting erupted between the "Ghost "Battalion" and forward elements of the Ukrainian 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade. Rozhin thinks the Ukrainians will try to hang the suicide of a morale officer from the brigade, Lieutenant Karina Shemchuk on fighting with separatists. Video at at the link Related: Lugansk: 2021-06-02 Lukashenko invites security officers of breakaway republic to interview Protasevich Lugansk: 2021-05-28 Observers say Lugansk separatists violated disengagement zones Lugansk: 2021-05-11 Ukrainian border guards caught men walking from Lugansk with fencing rapiers through minefields Posted by: badanov 2021-06-12 |
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