In recent weeks, Russia has been the target of an upsurge in acts of sabotage committed against military targets or fuel depots. Until now, little information has filtered out on the identity of the saboteurs and their mode of operation, but on December 26, concordant Russian and Ukrainian sources revealed the death of four Ukrainian soldiers on a mission on the territory of the Russian Federation.
With our correspondent in kyiv, Stephane Siohan
On December 26, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had killed four Ukrainian individuals who had entered the Bryansk region in order to commit sabotage and terrorist acts.
Their names are Yuri Horovets, Maksym Mikhailov, Taras Karpiouk and Bohdan Liahov, according to information published by the Russian services. Photos of the remains have leaked in Russian media, and according to the FSB, the four men had foreign weapons, including SIG Sauer machine guns, communication devices and four bombs with a total capacity of 40 kilos.
Sabotage missions in Russia
They were in fact four soldiers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, whose identity was confirmed on Telegram by Yevhen Karas, a far-right activist, founder of the C14 group, himself a soldier. Karas, who seems to know the four men, calls them ” the ghosts of the night from Briansk and Belgorod, indicating that they are not at their first attempt and that they have already carried out several sabotage missions in Russian territory.
According to Yevhen Karas, the leader of the group is a member of the Ukrainian nationalist organization “ Fraternity “, a rather dubious group, the founder of which sailed for a long time in the orbit of the Ukrainian and Russian secret services. Still according to Yevhen Karas, photos in support, the four men on a mission would have exploded on a minefield.
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