With Russian officials no longer interested in the fate of the area and no longer in control, RDK fighters have now taken matters into their own hands, the RDK said in a statement.
The RDK and the Russian Freedom Legion (LRF) are fighting on the side of Ukraine, but are composed of Russian citizens who oppose a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The village of Novaya Tavolzhanka had 5,000 inhabitants, “but now it is empty,” the RDK soldier said in the video.
After days of artillery fire in the area, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, implicitly admitted that he was no longer in control of the situation.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia has called the fighters of RDK and LSR “terrorists” and “saboteurs”.
In a video posted on the Telegram app, the RDK warrior offered talks with Moscow officials, claiming that the regional governor has no influence on the situation.
The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) concluded on Sunday that Russian authorities at different levels do not coordinate actions and do not know how to respond to what is happening in the Belgorod region.
The institute’s experts pointed out that the reaction of the Russian authorities is focused on achieving an effect in the information space, but there are no signs that a wider set of measures will be developed to prevent RDK and LSR raids on Russian territory near the Ukrainian border.
2023-06-06 03:49:41
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