Is The U.S. Permitting Ukraine To Attack Russia Using American Weapons?
A video of the aftermath of Russian artillery strikes that targeted the positions of Ukraine-led infiltration group on the territory of the "Grayvoron" border crossing point in Belgorod Oblast of Russia.
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AMZ Dzik and three HMMWV military vehicles can be seen damaged. pic.twitter.com/q9tDD9ePz8
Warzone/The Drive: Images Claiming To Show U.S. Vehicles Used In Raid Into Russia Spur Questions
Security assistance to Ukraine is for use inside its borders “to defend their country,” the Pentagon’s top spokesman said.
Asked about imagery emerging on social media purporting to show U.S.-made armored vehicles captured in Russia during this week's cross-border incursion, the Pentagon said it did not authorize the transfer of equipment to "paramilitary organizations outside the Ukrainian Armed Forces" by Kyiv and received no requests to do so.
Images appeared on social media claiming to show that two pro-Ukrainian Russian partisan groups - the Freedom For Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps - used several U.S.-donated vehicles during a cross-border attack on Russia. While we cannot independently confirm the use of those vehicles in that attack, the Oryx open-source weapons tracking group - which only reports on equipment it has visual confirmation of - says that the Russians captured two International M1224 MaxxPro MRAPs, two 2 M1151 HMMWVs and that one M1152 HMMWV was damaged and captured. The Ukraine Weapons Tracker open-source investigations group concurred with that assessment.
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Update: WW3 fears as Russia claims US weapons were used in shock attack on their soil (Daily Star).
WNU Editor: There is some speculation that these US vehicles were planted by Russian forces to create the narrative that the US is directing Ukraine to attack Russia. The problem with that analysis is that the Kremlin has no need to create such a scenario for the simple reason being that the vast majority of Russians (if not all Russians) already believe it.
On the Ukraine side I know that Western weapons are flooding into Ukraine, and there is no real control on where a portion of it is being deployed. The country is now in a state of total war, and having a bureaucrat somewhere deciding on where all vehicles, weapons, and ammunition goes is not a priority. The priority is to equip units that are willing to fight and/or are currently fighting the Russian military.
As to the US reaction. There are promises that there will be an investigation .... Ukraine Situation Report: White House Investigating If U.S. Vehicles Used In Raid Into Russia (Warzone/The Drive). I am 100% confident that nothing is going to come out of this.
The US military and the intelligence community have a very good idea on what is happening in the war. And while publicly the US says they do not want these Ukrainian militias using their weapons in Russia, they are not going to stop what Ukrainian commanders on the ground want to do, including invading Russia.
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