Details of the shootout on the border between Russia and Ukraine have been revealed

Clashes on the Russian-Ukrainian border, as reported the day before by the FSB border service, occurred during an attempt to kidnap a Russian citizen from the territory of the Russian Federation by Ukrainian special operations forces.

This was reported by the Gray Zone Telegram channel, one of the authors of which is former member of the Donbass militia Vladlen Tatarsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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The report claims that the Ukrainians tried to kidnap a former member of the Donbass militia. In fact, this was a continuation of the story with an unsuccessful attempt to lure through Belarus the fighters of the Russian PMC, who had previously fought for the LDPR.

The Ukrainians tried to capture Donbass war veteran Denis Kharitonov - he was one of those who testified against himself over the phone when they called him, allegedly offering him a job in a security structure and asking him to talk about his combat experience in the militia.

“Ukraine did not stop at the failed special operation, and a few days ago, SBU officers and their contact in the Belgorod region captured a Russian citizen. By intravenous injection of a chemical solution (presumably the muscle relaxant dithiline), he was introduced into a state in which the person was unable to resist. Next, the group headed to the area of ​​the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, which lies near the border with Ukraine, where an unsuccessful attempt was made to exfiltrate the group. On the other side of the border, they received fire assistance from the MTR of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result of the ensuing clash with the FSB of the Russian Federation, one fighter of the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed, and work is also underway to identify an agent network on Russian territory. The Russian citizen was released and is safe,” the authors say.

They pay attention to the photo from the scene of the incident - “the special forces of the Special Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, retreating from the scene of the operation, threw away part of their equipment.” “Based on what was liquidated, we can say that the combat group worked in full combat gear, with night vision devices, and also, for example, with foreign thermal imaging sights.”

“Based on the situation itself, we can only say that our special services, of course, did well in this case, counterintelligence worked perfectly, trying to capture the group while directly crossing the border. But it is also impossible not to note the unconditional rising level of special operations carried out by Ukraine. They may not be able to do this for the third time, but at least they are not afraid to try,” note the channel’s authors.

Military correspondent Igor Dimitriev, a former deputy of the Odessa City Council, agrees with them.

“Don’t you think the very possibility of actions of this kind is surprising? That Ukrainians are developing practice on Russian territory, organizing stunts such as detaining Wagnerites, and kidnapping people?

Do you remember, about three years ago, everyone here laughed at the new logo of the Ukrainian power steering - an owl sticking a sword into the globe specifically in Russia? Remember? Laughed? “I don’t remember any particularly successful operations on the territory of Ukraine recently,” he wrote in the Telegram channel.

Russian military correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny also expressed concern about the fact that the level of Ukrainian special forces is growing, and although now all their operations are failing, with each such failure they gain useful experience.

“It is not surprising that Ukrainian special services are trying to work on Russian territory. They weren’t spotted beyond the Urals.

The SBU was the first of the security forces to be mobilized by the new authorities after the coup in 2014. Over the past 6 years, Kyiv has been actively developing the MTR.

American instructors who work with special units are good, high-quality instructors. Kyiv has access to advanced military technologies for special forces, the photo periodically flashes the shmurdyak of the Ukrainian special forces, everything is fine with them. They also abandoned the charter, that is, they serve as pirates, which is a plus for certain tasks. Judging by the nature of the sluggish fighting in the LDPR, the level of training and equipment of SPN units has increased significantly. 338 to the head at night from a distance of 1200-1400 is now not uncommon.

Well, one language, one everyday culture. If anyone can work in the southwest of Russia, it is specialists from Ukraine.

So far they are coming out crooked. They lack an important component - experience. And, of course, the opposition of the enemy, that is, us, greatly hinders them) But everything comes with experience. Jews also worked crookedly in the late forties and early fifties. Then we learned. The trend is that the Ukrainian direction needs to be strengthened. And don’t live with memories of 2014 in Debaltsevo,” Poddubny wrote on the social network.