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Jun 2 • 7 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Russian officials and milbloggers’ responses to the limited raid in #Belgorod Oblast are indicative of continued heightened anxiety within the Russian information space regarding the war in #Ukraine.🧵 isw.pub/UkrWar060123
2/ #Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on June 1 that #Putin constantly receives information about the situation in #Belgorod Oblast, and that Putin awarded Shebekinsky Raion Head Vladimir Zhdanov the Order of Courage for his response to the situation along the border.
3/ #Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced that Russian officials in Belgorod Oblast evacuated 200 children to Penza Oblast and plan to evacuate another 600 children to Kaluga and Yaroslavl oblasts on June 3.
4/ BBC’s Russia Service reported on June 1 that Gladkov agreed with authorities of several Russian regions to accept 1,200 Belgorod residents during evacuations.
5/ These evacuations from #Belgorod Oblast, Putin’s reported attentiveness to the situation, and the MoD’s characterization of the raid as an attempt to "invade” Russian territory suggest that the #Kremlin is trying to use these limited raids...
6/ ...to support ongoing information operations that seek to portray the war in #Ukraine as existential and garner domestic support for a protracted war.
7/ Select Russian milbloggers also used the situation in #Belgorod Oblast to criticize the Russian leadership while others argued that the limited raids are precursors for Ukrainian counteroffensive operations. isw.pub/UkrWar060123

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Geolocated footage published May 31 indicates that #Russian forces made marginal gains SE of Masyutivka (13km NE of #Kupyansk) in #Kharkiv Oblast.

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#Russian forces continue to concentrate in southern Ukraine. 1/4

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