DRAMATIC footage shows how a furious Vladimir Putin used fighter bombers to unleash hell on his own territory.
Moscow’s forces for the first time deliberately targeted a Russian border village with deadly glide bombs after it was taken captive by rebel groups.
East2WestMoscow deliberately targeted their own territory amid the rebel insurgency[/caption]
Huge clouds of dust and smoke erupt in the aftermath of the savage bomb blitzEast2West
Not a single house was left in tact in the devastated villageEast2West
The humiliated tyrant, 71, carried out an aerial bombing blitz in the village of Kozinka in Belgorod – a border region increasingly ravaged by daily shelling and incursions by Russian partisans.
Following the savage strikes, reports suggest there is not a single house left in tact in Kozinka – which had a prewar population of 1,132.
Previously in the war, Russian planes have accidentally bombed Russian territory due to misfiring, but this was a case of pinpoint targeting.
A local woman told Dozhd TV channel that Kozinka was “practically destroyed” due to the Russian bombing.
“They dumped [the bombs] on residential buildings – and in most cases there are no houses.”
Analyst Julian Röpcke wrote on Telegram channel BILD: “This video shows massive Russian airstrikes on… Russia.
“Although forces hostile to the regime captured only one street in the small village of Kozinka in the Belgorod region, Putin responded with brutal force, such as numerous FAB-500 glide bombs from fighter-bombers.”
Pro-Putin channel Two Majors said: “Several groups of enemy infantry have already been destroyed. The fighting continues.”
The FAB-500 glide bombs strikes came days after the Russian military denied the presence of enemy forces in Kozinka and other villages across the border from Ukraine.
However, since last week – three ragtag battalions of anti-Putin insurgents have been fiercely battling government troops and capturing territory.
Despite having a limited arsenal, the pro-Kyiv fighters have battled on in both Belgorod and Kursk and humiliated Vlad by claiming at least two villages.
The savage Kozinka bombing reflects Putin’s fury at the attacks on Belgorod regions by the Ukrainians and the partisan fighters.
This week, he ordered his military to respond by hitting civilian targets in Ukraine – which his armed forces have anyway done during the war – and demanded his FSB hunt down and kill anti-Putin partisan fighters wherever they are.
Accusing his enemy of civilian strikes, he said: “We can respond in the same way.
“[We can hit] civilian infrastructure and all other objects of this kind that the enemy attacks.”
East2WestA Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) fighter pictured in Kozinka during their ongoing assault into Belgorod[/caption]
This is seen as behind a heavy attack on Ukrainian capital Kyiv today.
On the rebel battalions fighting with Ukraine against Russia, Putin told FSB commanders: “These traitors, I ask you, as this has always been the case in our history, not to forget who they are, to reveal them by name.
“We will punish them without a statute of limitations, wherever they are.”
The Russian armed forces said: “In the Belgorod direction, Russian units have completely cleared the settlement of Kozinka from the remnants of Ukrainian militants.”
The Russian military “continue to take measures to prevent the penetration of sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the border area”.
At sunrise on March 12, rebels from the Russian Freedom Legion (RFL), Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and Siberian Battalion (SB) launched an unprecedented two-pronged cross-border assault on their homeland.
The political head of Russian armed resistance, Ilya Ponomarev, told The Sun last week that his Ukraine-supporting partisans were ready to take the fight to Vlad as part of “Operation Freedom”.
The ex-Russian MP said: “This is absolutely the largest assault we have led and it is finally a joint operation of all three Russian [partisan] regiments.”
“Now, this is a large-scale operation — we are attacking several directions simultaneously,” Ponomarev added.
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East2WestThe village as it was targeted by Russian fighter bombers[/caption]