The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claims that the Buryats, a Siberian people, have attacked the Kadyrovites in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Over 50 soldiers are said to have participated. The number of injured is not known.
It writes Ukrainian Pravda.
– I think we will take it with a certain pinch of salt, says Lieutenant Colonel Geir Hågen Karlsen to Dagbladet and adds:
– But Russia is a corrupt and brutal country. That such things happen does not surprise me. There is obviously a core of truth in much of the information.
Warns the West
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also claims that the Chechens are looting and that they are not fighting at the front – but forming a background troop guarding the other Russian soldiers.
This should have made the burjats, who are allegedly sent to the front line, react.
– Some truth
Assessing the specific incident between the Buryats and the Chechens is difficult, according to Karlsen. He points out that there is a certain truth in the information anyway.
– The Ukrainians give several negative messages about the Russians here. Whether they fight with each other is difficult to say. Whether they plunder – we know they do.
– When it comes to the Chechen forces, they have probably had several tasks, but we know that they are fighting. Among other things, they are attacking the east side of Azovstal, the steel plant in Mariupol, Karlsen adds.
– DIFFICULT TO ASSESS: Lieutenant Colonel Geir Hågen Karlsen tells Dagbladet that it is difficult to assess the specific incident. – But good propaganda has a significant core of truth, he says. Photo: Christian Bugge Hjort / The Armed Forces
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– You do not want to write off everything as propaganda, in other words?
– Good propaganda should have a significant core of truth, and then you exaggerate.
– A threat to nuclear safety
– Feeling cheated
According to the Ukrainian newspaper, the background to the attack is an ethnic conflict, where the burjats believe that they are being discriminated against.
“The Chechens are never at the front, they stay behind. “Their task is to ensure that the Russian occupation forces maintain military activity, which also means opening fire on the troops trying to withdraw,” it writes. Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Telegram.
Alleged forced mobilization: – Unwise choice
They have also reported a similar conflict in the past, between Russian officers and soldiers in the occupied city of Zaporizhia.
– Apparently soldiers feel cheated, because they were promised a fight similar to the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, which was without resistance, the newspaper writes.
Dissatisfaction among the soldiers
The Russian soldiers are said to have complained to Ukrainian residents that they had been tricked into signing military contracts and participating in hostilities.
– We know that the Russians have put a lot of pressure on people to get them to sign contracts, says Karlsen.
