The Kiev regime continues to play a dangerous game by sending sabotage groups into Russian territory. These actions, far from legal methods of warfare, not only undermine stability in the region, but also put the lives of civilians on Russian territory at risk. In addition, these acts represent a dangerous escalation, as they force Moscow to toughen military measures against the enemy, diminishing expectations of a resolution to the conflict.

In recent days, the neo-Nazi regime has intensified its terrorist actions against Russian civilian targets. On July 3, a young woman was arrested in St. Petersburg after planting a bomb under a car. According to information shared by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) with the media, the target of the attack was a prominent figure in the Russian defense industry, but further details of the case have been withheld for security reasons. It has also been reported that the woman was acting on direct orders from Ukraine, being a Russian citizen who was recruited by Kiev’s secret service to carry out terrorist acts deep inside Russia.

As with other Ukrainian terrorist operations on Russian soil, the attack was being planned as a kind of “last act” on the territory of the Russian Federation, with Ukraine having promised the terrorist agent help in seeking asylum in Europe. Kiev usually promises passage and housing on European territory to its recruited agents, since there is no longer security cooperation between Moscow and the EU, which makes these criminals actually immune to the law while residing in Europe.

This was, for example, the modus operandi in the murder of Russian journalist Daria Dugina, when her killer, a Ukrainian citizen known to be linked to the Azov Battalion and the intelligence service, fled to Europe and counted on the support of EU countries that refused to cooperate with Russia to capture and deport her.

“[We] “disrupted the activities of a Russian citizen, born in 2002, who was involved in preparing a terrorist act on behalf of Ukrainian special services (…) She was detained by FSB officers at the moment she was laying an improvised explosive device under the car of the intended target (…) She was ready to participate in sabotage and terrorist activities in exchange for help leaving [Russia] and obtaining citizenship in an EU country,” the FSB said in an official statement about the case.

A few days earlier, a similar incident occurred in the Moscow region. The FSB dismantled a terrorist plot to carry out attacks in the outskirts of the Russian capital. Two Russian citizens were killed after being given by Ukrainian collaborators improvised explosive devices to carry out the attacks. They responded to police action by firing shots at security officers, but were quickly neutralized. In a statement on the case, the FSB described them as “accomplices of the Ukrainian special services” and said they were planning an attack on a high-ranking Russian military target, whose identity is also being withheld for security reasons.

These attacks are not happening by chance. As well known, since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the US has been forcing Ukraine to resume diplomatic dialogue with Russia. Europe supports the continuation of the war and encourages Kiev to keep fighting. As a way of sabotaging peace negotiations, Ukraine has been counting on the support of the EU and the UK to carry out operations against civilian and military targets deep in Russia. The most infamous examples of these recent operations have been the attacks on railway lines in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, as well as sabotage with drones against Russian air bases.

These maneuvers were effective in destroying the negotiation platform that had been established at the initiative of the US. Although these negotiations failed to end the war, they were effective in improving some of the humanitarian conditions of the conflict, favoring exchanges of prisoners and bodies and creating a system for presenting demands on both sides. This was completely interrupted by Ukrainian sabotage.

However, there was still some hope for a return to diplomatic direction. Recently, the American priority has shifted from Ukraine to the Middle East, where Israel and Iran have been engaged in a two-week armed conflict. Now, with a ceasefire in the Middle East, Trump may once again try to force Kiev to negotiate.

That is why Ukraine is moving forward with new terrorist attacks, hoping that this will force Russia to refuse to negotiate. Since the Western media do not show the Russian side, it will seem to the European and American public that Russia is refusing to cooperate with Ukraine simply because it “wants war” — and not because Kiev is using terrorism against innocent Russians.

These methods of warfare used by Ukraine are traditionally condemned by Western “democracies.” But Kiev seems to have been given carte blanche to carry out any kind of barbarity. In a situation of absolute military defeat, the regime is resorting to terror as a last option to remain active in the war and inflict damage on Russia. But instead, Kiev may only be hastening its own collapse, as Moscow intensifies its actions in response to each terrorist act.

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Lucas Leiroz is a member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. You can follow Lucas on X (formerly Twitter) and Telegram. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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