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Moment Putin unleashes hell on his OWN Russian territory in bombing blitz on rebel fighters in war-ravaged Belgorod
The anti-Putin partisans took over the now-devastated village earlier this week
DRAMATIC footage has captured the moment 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.
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The humiliated tyrant, 71, carried out an aerial bombing blitz in the village of Kozinka in Belgorod - a border region increasingly ravaged by Ukrainian attacks and incursions by Russian partisans.
Following the savage FAB-500 glide bomb strikes, there is reportedly not a single home left intact in Kozinka - which had a pre-war population of 1,132.
Previously in the war, Russian planes have embarrassingly 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," adding: “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.”
Today, Putin today kept up his bombardment of his own country as a new video captured another Russian strike inside Belgorod.
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Russia's defence ministry said they hit “the points of temporary deployment, manpower and equipment” of sabotage groups crossing into Russia from Ukraine.
Moscow claims to have killed hundreds of "militants" which it argues are Ukrainian - despite evidence showing they are anti-Putin Russian paramilitary forces.
Russia's military has repeatedly attempted to deny or downplay the presence of enemy forces in the borderlands.
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 managed to sustain their presence in both Belgorod and Kursk and humiliated Vlad by claiming at least two villages.
Furious Putin orders rebel Russian fighters be hunted & EXECUTED after humiliating loss of territory in his own borders
The Russian armed forces responded to the strike, saying: “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”.
Ukraine's armed forces have denied their involvement in the ongoing raids in the borderlands and said the paramilitary groups are "independent organisations" of Russian citizens who are operating "at home".
This week, Putin ordered his military to respond by hitting civilian targets in Ukraine - which his armed forces have done anyway throughout the war - and demanded his FSB hunt down and kill anti-Putin partisan fighters wherever they are.
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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.”
The despot told his secret service high command on Tuesday to hunt down and execute the "scum" Russian rebels fighting with Ukraine.
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.”
Earlier this week, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced an evacuation order to move 9,000 children away from the new frontline, where the paramilitaries have been active in shelling and cross-frontier forays.
Later evacuees will be sent to the region of Stavropol, including the kids from the city of Belgorod that has been under sustained fire in recent days.
The evacuation order was a stark admission that despite boasting on the strength of his armed forces, Putin is unable to properly defend a Russian region.
For days, the anti-Kremlin groups have urged civilians to immediately evacuate their homes ahead of what they called "massive strikes".
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".
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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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Who are the partisans?
DETERMINED to take the fight to Putin, Ukraine-supporting Russian partisans have been repeatedly launching raids and assaults in Russia's borderlands.
The "freedom fighters" - which are independent groups of mostly Russian citizens - formed recently in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Since then, they have been going from strength to strength with the explicit aim of finally ending the Kremlin regime.
On March 12, the anti-Putin paramilitaries launched their largest attack on their homeland yet and claim to have now captured two villages.
Fighters from the Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL), Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and Siberian Battalion (SB) have joined forces to lead their assault in the Russian border regions of both Belgorod and Kursk.
They stated their goal was to disrupt Putin's sham elections last week and "take our land back from [Putin's] regime centimetre by centimetre".
The Russian defence ministry has been forced to admit that settlements are under siege from the armed rebels and have evacuated parts of Belgorod.
Their political head, Ilya Ponomarev, told The Sun they had been conducting constant small-scale raids since September to keep the pressure on Russian defences.
He explained that they were now engaged in "our largest assault yet".
The partisans have also been fighting for Ukraine in some of its bloodiest battles raging across its 600-mile front.
Late last May - prior to the Wagner Group's explosive but aborted mutiny in June - fighters from the FRL and RDK stormed across the border in tanks and led the biggest assault on Russian soil since Putin rose to power.
In a days-long battle, they “liberated” eight villages in the Belgorod region, even taking Russian soldiers captive and embarrassing Putin on the world stage.
In December, The Sun spoke to a senior commander in the legion, Caesar, who vowed that Russia is ready to explode and promised to light its fuse in 2024.
Caesar - who is now the face of the newest large-scale assault into Russia - explained: "That's why Putin is very, very afraid of us."
He warned Russia that his "warriors" will stop at nothing to “free our motherland” and “save Ukraine” in the process.
"We are the first military regiment who clearly and loudly says that only a struggle by force can change the power in Russia."
The commander said they have a combined force of thousands of brave Russians behind them - those who are willing to risk their lives to secure a “brighter future” for Russia.