The daylight incursion, heavily publicised across Ukrainian social media with leaked military drone footage, was timed to coincide with a video issued by Major General Kyrylo Budanov, the GUR’s commander, instructing Russian soldiers to surrender.
The men who carried out the raid were Russian, but they were wearing Ukrainian camouflage, holding Nato-standard rifles and driving American-made Humvees into battle, under the watchful eye of Ukrainian reconnaissance teams.
It was left to the GUR to brief the media on the operation, by far the largest and most aggressive of three publicised border raids to date.
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> The daylight incursion, heavily publicised across Ukrainian social media with leaked military drone footage, was timed to coincide with a video issued by Major General Kyrylo Budanov, the GUR’s commander, instructing Russian soldiers to surrender.
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> The men who carried out the raid were Russian, but they were wearing Ukrainian camouflage, holding Nato-standard rifles and driving American-made Humvees into battle, under the watchful eye of Ukrainian reconnaissance teams.
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> It was left to the GUR to brief the media on the operation, by far the largest and most aggressive of three publicised border raids to date.
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