Russia Launches ‘Operation Z’ As Tanks & Trucks Marked With Mystery Symbol

Russia Launches ‘Operation Z’ As Tanks & Trucks Marked With Mystery Symbol Come Within Six Miles Of The Ukrainian Border

RUSSIAN tanks, trucks and armoured vehicles have been spotted all daubed with the letter “Z” within six miles of Ukraine.

It is suspected they have been allocated a specific role – for now unclear – in a possibly imminent invasion of the former Soviet state.

Videos taken from near the border show the markings on Russian tanks, self-propelled guns, fuel trucks and supply vehicles.

The military equipment painted with the white “Z” ‘was seen between six and 25 miles from the border.

Independent Russian Telegram channel Hunter’s Notes which closely monitors military movements showed off a selection of the footage they had gathered from the region.

“All equipment [marked with ‘Z’] was seen near Kursk and in the Shebekino region of Belgorod region,” the admins said.

“Perhaps we are dealing with a certain group of troops that has its own tasks and plans for the near future.”

In one case, it was reported some 200-plus military vehicles were seen around Bershakovo, Maksimovka, and Shebekino in Belgorod region.

In the convoy were BMP-2 amphibious infantry fighting vehicles, MT-LB multi-purpose auxiliary armoured tracked vehicles, UR-77 Meteorit mine clearing vehicles, , MSTA-S howitzers, and TOS-1A multiple rocket launchers.

Sometimes the “Z” – seemingly in Western lettering – is in a box, but it remains unclear the difference between the two symbols.

“It was not applied with a stencil, but hastily,” said the channel.

It comes as the world waits with bated breath to see what Russia will do next – after signs show that plans to invade Ukraine have “already begun.”

It comes as:

It comes amid reports of explosions rocking Donetsk on Saturday night –

Putin is feared to be massing a force of up to 200,000 soldiers, supported by tanks, artillery and armoured vehicles on the edge of the former Soviet state.

Russia and Ukraine have been at loggerheads ever since Kyiv began to grow closer to the West – leading Russia to annexing Crimea in 2014 and stoking separatists to take up arms in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.

And all eyes are now are now on the relatively small region, which is currently under the control of two pro-Russian rebel groups, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR).

The fact is that all the signs are that the plan has already, in some senses, begun

Boris Johnson

Shelling has been reported across the region as Ukraine, Russia and the separatists point fingers at each other over the clashes.

There have been reports of artillery shells falling within Russia’s borders, at least two of Ukrainian soldiers being killed, and loud explosions heard throughout the Donbas.

Both separatist groups ordered mass evacuations on Friday as they accused Ukraine of planning a wide scale attack – including alleging Kyiv was going to blow up a chemical plant.

And now both have also declared the “full mobilisation” of their military forces.

It is feared that Putin could use the rising chaos in the Donbas as pretext to move in his troops.

Western intelligence officials have repeatedly suggested that Vlad could use a “false flag” – a staged attack or threat to give them an excuse to invade.

Russia has also been stoking accusations of “genocide”, with Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claiming that life in the Donbas is “hell” for ethnic Russians.

In a new suspected stunt, the pro-Moscow rebel authority in Donetsk claimed to have detained a Ukrainian spy who was said to be confessing to Kyiv’s aims to overrun the Donbas.

Named Anton Matsanyuk, he “confirmed that Kyiv intends to use all its strike power in the forcible seizure of the Donbas,” said a report.

The alleged saboteur conveniently confirmed a plan touted in recent days by Russia of a Ukrainian plan to invade Donetsk and Luhansk.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that Russia is planning the “biggest war in Europe since 1945” as Putin intends to “invade and encircle Kyiv.”

Asked if he believes a Russian invasion is imminent, Mr Johnson told the BBC: “I’m afraid that that is what the evidence points to, there’s no burnishing it.

“The fact is that all the signs are that the plan has already, in some senses, begun.”

The PM also warned Putin that he faces decades of “bloodshed and misery” if his troops invade Ukraine.

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