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Commentary by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

While most of the world has been holding their breath and waiting for an Iranian response to Israel’s recent assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, a Ukrainian military group reported to consist of NATO mercenaries invaded Russia and drove into the Kursk region of Russia, where there were no military bases or military operations, and attacked civilian neighborhoods who obviously offered little to no resistance.

Russia responded quickly to the surprise attacks, but apparently this was a carefully planned invasion with highly trained NATO para-military personnel.

One Of Ukraine’s Toughest And Fastest Brigades Has Joined The Invasion Of Russia

A column of armored vehicles rolling into southern Russia’s Kursk Oblast on the third day of Ukraine’s surprise attack into Russia confirms the involvement of one of Ukraine’s best-equipped and fastest-moving brigades: the 80th Air Assault Brigade.

A video that circulated on social media on Thursday depicts a T-64BV or T-80BV tank, a UR-77 mine-clearing vehicles, an IMR-2 engineering vehicle plus BTR-80 and U.S.-made Stryker wheeled armored personnel carriers rolling past a busy Ukrainian mortar crew. All the vehicles are up-armored with anti-drone cages. Infantry crowd the top of the BTR-80.

An 82-millimeter mortar lobs a bomb at most a couple of miles. It’s clear from the context that the video captures the early moments of a serious Ukrainian assault on Russian positions.

Only the 80th Air Assault Brigade operates that mix of ex-Soviet and ex-American vehicles. Further confirmation is found in a separate video—shot by a Russian drone—depicting strikes on ex-German Marder tracked fighting vehicles in Kursk Oblast.

The 80th Air Assault Brigade, like its sister unit the 82nd Air Assault Brigade, apparently operates Marders alongside its Strykers. The Marders are heavy. The Strykers are fast. They suit the Ukrainian air assault forces’ preference for swift but powerful attacks.

The participation of the 80th Air Assault Brigade—one of the better Ukrainian brigades—underscores the scale of the Ukrainian operation just north of Ukraine’s northern border with Russia. (Source.)

Russia is calling this a terrorist attack since the NATO armed forces only attacked civilians where there were initially no Russian troops or military operations.

It is being reported that the mercenaries are mainly from Poland and Georgia.

Mercenaries from Georgia fighting in Russia’s Kursk Region

A militant force accused of torturing and murdering Russian POWs is reportedly taking part in the incursion

Members of the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary force backed by Kiev, are reportedly taking part in the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk Region.

The presence of the group was reported on Thursday by War Zone, a prominent military-focused news website. It cited a source “with direct knowledge of ongoing operations in Kursk,” and posted a video from a pro-Ukrainian X (formerly Twitter) account as evidence.

The clip shows men operating a mortar, and talking between themselves and with other people off camera in a mixture of Georgian and Russian. They are seen wearing military gear and blue arm tape used by Ukrainian troops to identify each other in the heat of combat.

Another video posted by the same channel, likewise claiming to show the mercenaries in Kursk Region, shows a group of resting fighters, with Ukrainian and Georgian flags on their uniforms. (Source.)

Russian forces reportedly captured one of the Ukrainian soldiers who stated that the mercenaries were communicating in English and Polish on military radios, and that his brigade was “made up of those who used to be in jail”.

A Ukrainian soldier who was captured in Kursk Region amid Kiev’s ongoing cross-border offensive has claimed that foreign mercenaries are fighting for Ukraine on Russian soil.

Footage of an interview with the detainee was released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday. The agency claimed that the man shown in the footage was captured with the help of local residents in Kursk Region. The Ukrainian identified himself as a 26-year-old member of his country’s 80th Air Assault Brigade, which is taking part in the offensive.

Ruslan Poltoratsky, as he introduced himself, said he first heard foreign radio chatter when crossing the Russian border and initially thought it was some kind of interference.

“They spoke in English, Polish, maybe French. I did not understand them, called on the radio to repeat, and only heard gibberish in response,” he said.

He later concluded that the communications were local, since Ukrainian military officials were responding.

“There was something about houses and gunshots in the background,” he claimed.

Poltoratsky also mentioned that a brigade “made up of those who used to be in jail” was taking part in the Kursk Region offensive. He was apparently referring to a unit composed of convicts who volunteered in exchange for early release from prison. (Source.)

The captured soldier also claimed that his commander ordered them to shoot civilians, both those unarmed and those armed, and then loot their homes.

Ukrainians ordered to shoot civilians during Kursk attack – soldier

Men should be shot in the legs and those carrying arms killed on the spot, according to instructions a captured POW has said troops were given

A Ukrainian military commander ordered his men to kill armed civilians and wound unarmed men while operating in Russia’s Kursk Region, a captured soldier has claimed during an interview.

The prisoner of war identified himself as Ruslan Poltoratsky, 26, and said he was an active-duty member of Ukraine’s 80th Air Assault Brigade. His unit was given instructions on how to act on Russian soil by an officer whom he knew under the call sign Strizh (“swift” in Russian) who presumably commanded the squad in which Poltoratsky served.

“The commander specifically told us to … shoot men in their legs and throw them into a root cellar or basement. Kill them if armed,” he said, apparently referring to how he was supposed to treat Russian civilians.

“As for prisoners [of war], there were no particular instructions. Most likely, [we were supposed to take] no prisoners at all,” he added in the four-minute-long clip.

After seizing border settlements, the Ukrainians looted homes, he added, saying: “[We were] taking everything that caught our eye, which was valuable and portable.”

Source.

U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal traveled to Ukraine and praised the surprise attacks on civilians in Kursk, and called for the U.S. to give Ukraine more weapons, including calling for retired F-16 pilots from NATO countries to join in and train these mercenaries on how to fly the recent arrival of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets.

Senator Graham also admitted that these forces are using American-made weapons that are providing jobs in the U.S.

This invasion that Russia refers to as a “terrorist attack” against its own citizens, completely changes the rules of engagement in this war, now that NATO forces have entered Russia and murdered its citizens.

Russia has issued stern warnings about retaliation.

Ukraine will ‘bitterly regret’ Kursk attack – Moscow

Kiev deserves nothing but defeat and unconditional surrender, Russia’s deputy UN envoy has said

Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region is “a fatal mistake” that Kiev will regret bitterly, Moscow’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, has warned.

On August 6, Ukrainian forces launched their largest attack on Russian territory since the outbreak of the conflict in February 2022. The advance of Kiev’s troops was swiftly halted by Russian forces, but they remain in control of several settlements in Kursk Region. According to the local governor, at least 12 civilians have been killed and another 121 wounded as a result of the incursion, with more than 120,000 residents forced to evacuate.

Commenting on Kiev’s offensive during a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Polyansky said that “undoubtedly, this is a move that Ukraine will bitterly regret as its last trained military reserves are being eliminated there as we speak.”

The envoy noted that in June, Russia “made a very generous negotiation proposal to Ukraine, given its desperate situation on the front line,” but said the incursion into the Kursk region has shown that “the Zelensky regime chose escalation and war” over dialogue.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that since the start of its incursion, the Ukrainian forces have lost up to 2,300 troops and hundreds of pieces of military equipment, including 37 tanks, 32 armored personnel carriers and 18 infantry fighting vehicles. (Source.)

As the leading member of BRICS this year, Russia may soon have more than just military options to strike back against NATO countries, as it was just announced a few weeks ago that BRICS will soon have a financial system similar to SWIFT, which would cut off financial transactions among BRICS nations, which includes China and Iran, from the U.S.-led SWIFT banking system.

This could be the last straw in collapsing the U.S. and western financial systems.

BRICS has officially announced the creation of a financial system similar to SWIFT

BRICS has officially announced the creation of a financial system similar to SWIFT. This was stated by the Consul General of China in Belfast, Zhang Meifang.

Earlier, Mohsen Karimi, deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran for International Affairs, said that BRICS plans to consider creating its own financial messaging system between members of the organization, similar to SWIFT.

In March, BRICS began work on creating a payment system based on blockchain and digital technologies, said Yuri Ushakov, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.

“We believe that the creation of an independent BRICS payment system is an important goal for the future, which will be based on modern tools such as digital technologies and blockchain. The main thing is to make sure that it is convenient for governments, ordinary people and businesses, as well as economically profitable and free from politics,” Ushakov stressed then.

Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced Ankara’s interest in joining the BRICS. (Source.)

An interesting historical point to note is that Kursk is the region in Russia that had the largest tank battle in the history of WW II, and stopped the German Nazis from advancing further into Russia.

NATO’S HIGHWAY TO KURSK IS ONE WAY–AS HISTORY HAS PROVEN

While the Corporate Vanguard media is beating the Ukraine drums-for-cash routine over last week’s NATO-led invasion into Russia, let’s review some facts.

No one from my generation escaped hearing the horrors of the Battle of Stalingrad, but that was not the biggest or even the one that brought down the last Nazis who invaded Russia.

Oh no. That distinction belongs to The Battle of Kursk.

Kursk was the largest tank battle in history, and it was the last attempt by the German army to slow down the Soviet Military. Kursk was the last throw of the dice for Germany on the Eastern Front.

The failure of the German offensive at Kursk dealt a severe blow to the army.

After the battle, Germany adopted a defensive posture on the Eastern Front. (Source.)

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