Rotor blades clattered within the evening sky because the helicopters streaked low over the Russian border. On board, the boys of the Shaman battalion, an elite Ukrainian particular forces unit, ready to disembark deep behind enemy traces.
Their mission, to destroy infrastructure very important to the Kremlin’s struggle effort, was one among a number of covert raids inside Russia, The Occasions has been informed by two of the operators who took half and an intelligence officer; the primary time Ukrainian particular forces have acknowledged taking the battle into Russian territory.
The precise targets are categorised however the groups’ forays throughout the border assist to clarify how Russian oil refineries, ammunition depots and communications networks have been mysteriously sabotaged.
Sergeants “Good-looking” and “Twenty Two”, each aged 25, have been
