News archive on the topic "Special Forces"

In Ukraine, it is practically recognized on a daily basis that in the territories controlled by Kyiv, local residents are fighting the Ukrainian regime. The SBU reported on another such detention, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The security service detained another spotter of Russian missile and bomb attacks on Kharkov. The attacker tried to identify the locations of the special unit “Kraken” of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,” the message says.…

US Army personnel, including special forces units, operate on the territory of Ukraine. One of the congressmen stated this during a meeting of the US House of Representatives Committee on Rules, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As you know, over the past few months we have received information that there were 14 American special forces in Ukraine. While…

The Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed that yesterday two Ukrainian Armed Forces helicopters landed troops in the Belgorod region. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an official statement from the Russian Defense Ministry. “About 16.30 Moscow time, in order to achieve surprise, a Ukrainian sabotage group of special operations forces militants and foreign mercenaries in two Mi-8 helicopters, using the terrain, carried out a landing before...

The Ukrainian command sends trained special forces on meaningless operations. The former deputy commander of the Special Forces of Ukraine, General Sergei Krivonos, stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “From my point of view, as a person who served for decades in this system and rose from the lowest to the highest positions in intelligence and Special Operations Forces, I...

Ukrainian formations will continue their offensive on the southern front, trying to break through to Crimea. A military analyst and director of the Air Defense Museum, retired colonel Yuri Knutov, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the military leadership of Great Britain and France recently visited Ukraine. It was just about continuing the “counter-offensive”. An offensive is being prepared in Orekhovsky, Yuzhnodonetsk and Artemovsky...

The Ministry of Defense reported on the role of special forces from the Rostov region in the destruction of four Leopard tanks. Major General Ivan Popov told how reconnaissance soldiers showed themselves effectively when repelling an enemy attack. No one is going to belittle the merits of our soldiers on the battlefield, but why “hammer nails with a microscope”? Isn't there a hammer? To understand what I mean, read the general’s quote: “The success of the battle...

Sergei Kozlov, major, veteran of the GRU special forces. A counter-offensive, advertised by both Ukrainian and Western propaganda, for which the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been preparing all winter and this spring, is coming. During this time, the West generously pumped Kyiv with weapons and the necessary equipment. True, in the Russian media there is again an extremely unreasonable trend aimed at proving a reduction in the danger and likelihood of this event itself.…

Belarusian fighters are returning en masse to the internal troops. The commander of the internal troops of Belarus, Nikolai Karpenkov, spoke about this in an interview with the ONT TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We will not carry out mobilization, this has already been said several times. The fighters who went through 2020, 21, 22, who were in these battle formations, who are our people, now they have arrived here without...

Russia can attract to its side about five thousand soldiers of the Afghan special forces, who were abandoned by the United States after fleeing this country. Now the Afghan security forces, who fought against the banned Taliban movement, which took power, are in Iran and can be deployed in Ukraine. Ukrainian military expert Alexander Korenkov stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

The story of sending six hundred British special forces to Ukraine may not be as “overcome” as Ukrainian jingoists make it out to be. Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the president’s office, said this on air on the UkrLife Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Arestovich, official Kyiv knows nothing about such plans of the British authorities, and the special forces themselves, in the event of a transfer, will...

British Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace arrived in Ukraine on an official visit. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Wallace has already met with the newly appointed head of the defense department, Alexei Reznikov. “They go there all the time. We count hundreds of such visits at different levels of representation. This is a common practice when NATO and European military officials visit Ukraine...

In Belarus, a “color revolution” scenario according to Western patterns is supposedly no longer possible. A military expert, retired colonel of the Central Apparatus of the Russian Defense Ministry, Vladimir Trukhan, stated this on the PolitWera Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Trukhan, facing the West, Russian special operations forces keep the situation under control. “I can reassure the Syabrs - the topic is played out. The West will already be in Belarus...

Special forces of the Belarusian police will now use grenades and sniffer dogs when detaining the Belarusian opposition. This is the reaction to the recent murder of a KGB officer who was shot dead by suspected terrorist Andrei Zeltser. Nikolai Karpenkov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Commander of the Internal Troops of Belarus, stated this in an interview with the STV television channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The response of law enforcement in this situation...

Russian, Belarusian and Serbian participants in the Slavic Brotherhood 2021 exercises have begun the active phase of the maneuvers. Serbian media reported this with reference to the Russian TV channel Zvezda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The main events of the active phase of the exercises take place near Novorossiysk at the Raevsky training ground. About a thousand military personnel from the three countries jointly conduct operations to combat gangs. According to the legend of the teachings,...