Ukraine’s operation in Russia’s Kursk region was prepared with the participation of the US, UK, and Polish intelligence services, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said.
"According to available information, the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region was prepared with the participation of the US, British, and Polish intelligence services. The units involved in it underwent combat coordination in training centers in the UK and Germany. Military advisers from NATO countries are providing assistance in managing Ukraine’s units that have invaded Russian territory, and in using Western weapons and military equipment," the agency told Russian media.
NATO countries are also providing the Ukrainian military with satellite reconnaissance data on the deployment of Russian troops in the area of the operation, the SVR added.
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The West fully backs the Ukrainian army’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
ReplyDelete"The incursion into the Kursk Region is taking place with full support from the West as it was authorized by the West," she pointed out at a briefing. According to her, Western leaders "actually okayed the atrocities and acts of terrorism that the Kiev regime is committing against civilians."
"The Kiev regime’s handlers won’t abandon their obsessive idea to - as they say - inflict a strategic defeat on Russia," Zakharova went on to say. "Public statements encouraging terrorist activities, particularly in the Kursk Region, foreign military equipment and mercenaries on our soil make it perfectly clear that the Western allies of the Kiev regime - the sponsors of this terrorist gang - are directly involved in the crimes of these neo-Nazis," she noted.
Zakharova pointed to publications in the Western media claiming that NATO countries weren’t sharing intelligence on targets inside Russia with the Kiev regime. "Moreover, some publications allege that the West wasn’t at all aware of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s plans. However, that’s clearly not the case," the Russian Foreign ministry spokeswoman stressed. Authorities in NATO member states run such media campaigns to avoid responsibility for the terrorist attacks the Kiev regime carries out, Zakharova said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Kyiv was secretly preparing an attack on the Kursk region.
ReplyDelete“Ukraine... was preparing its military operation in the Kursk region without feedback,” the German Chancellor emphasized during a joint press conference with Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
According to him, Berlin is closely monitoring what is happening. Scholz noted that the country will continue to support Kyiv and will remain its largest supporter in all of Europe.