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In late June 2024, U.S. media reported that American military contractors would be sent to Ukraine, just weeks before the Kursk attack on August 6, 2024.

After the attack on the Kursk region of the pre-war Russian Federation, the U.S. and its NATO proxies claimed that the incursion was a surprise offensive by Ukraine alone.

The Forward Observation Group, the private U.S. paramilitary company that posted photos of its fighters involved in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive against the Kursk region, refused to comment on its involvement in the attack on August 6.

“The Biden administration is moving toward lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine,” four U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CNN, “to help the country’s military maintain and repair U.S.-provided weapons systems.”

According to CNN, “The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, as the U.S. looks for ways to give Ukraine’s military an upper hand against Russia.”

CNN and other U.S. and European news outlets reported in late June about the possible deployment of this private military group. The U.S. has a long history of using mercenaries as cover for official American military troops. Think of Blackwater and the mercenaries in Syria and Iraq, the White Helmets (trained in Jordan), and I even go so far as to say that ISIS (Daesh in Arabic) is a private mercenary army, trained by the CIA and Mossad in Camp Bucca, Iraq.

The Foreign Observation Group (ironically, the acronym is FOG) is said to be a private group that claims to have traveled to Ukraine, Iraq and Syria to contact local fighters (jihadists) and take photos and videos of what they and the West call the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Syrian “civil war”.

All those conflicts are in reality proxy wars incited by the West, which is now resulting in a “hot war” between Russia and the U.S. and its criminal NATO partners.

Even before Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) began in February 2022, Western media published photos sourced from the likes of FOG from the Donbass region of then-eastern Ukraine. The images attracted limited criticism for interviewing (extolling) members of the NeoNazi Azov Battalion. The Nazi insignia of the Azov troops were blatantly displayed and their Nazi affiliation was irrefutable. Western media association with the NeoNazi paramilitaries raised questions at the time about whether they were so-called documentary journalists or a party to the conflict.

After the start of the SMO, the Western media whitewashed the NeoNazi image of the Azov Battalion and labeled them as the “good guys” fighting for the liberation of Ukraine.

The FOG group and other NATO private contractors are also active in obtaining medical supplies, equipment and money for Ukrainian fighters and foreign volunteers who have joined the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine.

To be sure, we heard from the Kremlin that many red lines have been crossed. Think of the recent attack with American ATACMS missiles on the beach in Crimea. The day that the U.S. announced that it would give private contractors a free hand, there was the attack on Crimea. Coincidence? No, I don’t think so!

Since the attack on Kursk, the battlefield has an extra dimension and we can accurately talk about a tangible confrontation or war between America, its NATO proxies and Russia. One could even argue that the proxy war is over and there is a new phase of direct confrontation going on.

The U.S. government has so far gradually increased its military support to Ukraine. The purpose of this approach is to test the Russian red lines, to see how Moscow reacts to the deployment of each new weapons system or each new Western sanction and, most recently, of course, the donation of frozen Russian assets, mainly in Europe, to Ukraine.

The situation has come to a head, in my humble opinion. Regarding Kursk, there has actually been an attack on Russia; Russian people have been killed, and slaughtered whereby civilians have been taken from their homes in trucks and executed. There is even footage of Ukrainian soldiers with SS helmets and with the detachment of Adolf Hitler’s Leibstandarte Regiment on their sleeves, harassing an old man, who was later killed.

The West is trying to push Russia to the limit, knowing that the Second World War is an extremely sensitive subject for Russian society where every family is related to a victim, a fallen soldier, a grandfather, an uncle, a cousin, or aunt who was killed during the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany, in which more than 26 million people died. The recent action in the Kursk region, where most Russians perceive that the U.S. and its NATO accomplices are involved, is a brazen provocation. Indeed, more than a provocation, it has violated the Russian soul and there we have landed in a totally different dimension. Perhaps one might say, the “road of no return.”

The Americans and the West continue to play their dirty game knowing that a bloodbath has already taken place in Kursk.

The original Battle of Kursk was a major Eastern Front battle in World War II between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. It was the largest in the history of warfare. Perhaps in their deranged mindset, the NATO axis wants to reenact, or think they can, the Battle of Kursk from 81 years ago. They are so radicalized with Russophobia that this could very well be the case.

Not only are there mercenaries in the Kursk region but also Western journalists have illegally crossed the Russian border with mercenaries and/or Ukrainian battalions. We all know about the Italians from the state broadcaster RAI and American journalists. There is also a Belgian journalist, working for the Dutch and Belgian mainstream media newspapers, named Jan Hunin who claims to be one of the first journalists in what he writes as “Ukrainian Kursk”, as the headline says in the Rotterdam-Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. He claims in his article that Kursk is now Ukrainian territory and no longer Russian and is pleased about the destruction and toppling of statues such as that of Yuri Gagarin. We can therefore conclude from this that the invasion of the Kursk region was a planned action not only by Ukraine, but by the U.S. and its proxies NATO. Western journalists were ready on the other side of the border in Ukraine to accompany the invading forces, as Jan Hunin claims in a podcast on the Dutch radio NPO.

Journalists and politicians in the West knew that something was going to happen, otherwise, you wouldn’t send journalists to the Kursk border to cover the invasion. According to the regime in Kiev and the actor-president whose term has long expired, “Ukraine did not disclose preparations for an operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast to Kiev’s allies, because the world might perceive it as crossing Russia’s “strictest of all red lines”.

This is belied by the fact that Western journalists waited for days at the Kursk border in Ukraine ready to cover the “surprise attack”. Evidently, they were well informed about the impending attack and took action when the green signal was given for the offensive so that they could enter illegally together with the mercenaries and the Ukrainian army.

Not a word is said about the fact that the Ukrainian soldiers and the foreign contractors aided by NATO soldiers or instructors captured Russian citizens and dragged Russian soldiers across the border into Ukraine. Russian citizens were killed, and their homes and possessions destroyed – all for the glory of Ukraine and the “Free West”.