SBU Major General: There Was Nothing To Meddle In Ukraine
- 10.02.2026, 16:20
The Ukrainian armed forces have turned the main hub of Russian aggression into a dead zone.
Belgorod actually "knocked out" the power grid - in a city that was one of the bases of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. How did the AFU manage to achieve such an effect?
About this, Charter97.org asked retired SBU Major General Viktor Yagun.
- Belgorod is only 40 kilometers from the border. These were systematic actions of the AFU. What more can I say: there was nothing to meddle in Ukraine. The AFU succeeded because the task was set - a logistics center used by the Russian army, such as Belgorod, simply had to become a dead zone so that it could not be used. That's all.
- For the Kremlin elite, what happens in the regions often doesn't matter. In your opinion, is the "Belgorod scenario" already possible in Moscow?
- The AFU has no such task yet. We need to concentrate our efforts and strike at the region that we want to lower into such a state. Here, Belgorod is just next door. It has really become a hub for the armed forces of the Russian Federation, and we couldn't just let it pass.
And to set tasks somewhere further away - conditionally Moscow or St. Petersburg - yes, it would look spectacular, but it is definitely not part of our tasks, because the AFU has completely different priorities. Our task is to rationally use the available resources and destroy enterprises, logistics and facilities that work for the military-industrial complex and ensure that Russia makes money. This is exactly what is in priority.
And using 100-200 drones just to hit some substation is definitely not the method of the Ukrainian armed forces.
- According to estimates, the AFU's strikes on Russia's oil industry cost the Russian Federation more than $11 billion. Will this campaign continue, and are strikes on facilities beyond the Urals and on Belarusian refineries that also work for the Kremlin possible?
- The AFU will try to reach all Russian refineries. So far the possibilities are about 2,000 kilometers, no more. So if there is a possibility to reach, the Ukrainian Defense Forces will definitely do it, because it is critical for us and really important to stop the Russian economy. So the attacks on Russian refineries will continue and intensify.