© RIA Novosti. Sergei Pivovarov
A house in Donetsk, a town in southern Russia’s Rostov Region, hit by a shell fired from the Ukrainian side of the border
A house in Donetsk, a town in southern Russia’s Rostov Region, hit by a shell fired from the Ukrainian side of the border
"Our patience is not boundless," the source told the newspaper, stressing that "this means not a massive action but exclusively targeted single strikes on positions from which the Russian territory is fired at."
The Russian side "knows for sure the site where the fire comes from," the source said.
The proposed plan echoes a statement by a deputy speaker of Russia's upper house, Yevgeniy Bushmin, who told RIA Novosti Sunday that using precision weapons in response to Ukraine's shelling would prevent further Kiev's attacks of Russia's territory.
There is a feeling that if before firing was not aimed against Russian border guards, now provocations have been on the rise as there is no other means of forcing us to join in the standoff with Ukraine's security troops," said Bushmin who represents Rostov Region in the Federation Council.
Comment: Espionage is a two-way street even if countries are "cooperating" with each other. In the midst of friendly alliances there are still secrets to be had while serving covert agendas. Is the U.S. looking for signs to determine the relationship between Germany and Russia? Are politicians playing a "sound and fury" deflection game with the public, and/or Russia, rather than quietly eliminating the problem? Or, could these spy incidents be a relic of an old paradigm giving way to a transnational security state? ...speculations at best.