A Ukrainian soldier. File photoCOSSACK CAMPS (Kherson region), April 21Russian security forces during a raid to identify Ukrainian saboteurs in the village of Kazachy Camps, Kherson region, discovered a cache with weapons, including grenade launchers, machine guns and Kalashnikov assault rifles, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. A whole arsenal was found in one of the abandoned houses: AK-74M, AKS and AKSM assault rifles , PKM machine guns or their Ukrainian counterpart KM-7.62, RPG-7 and RPG-18 grenade launchers, grenade launcher belt boxes from AGS, large-caliber cartridges, TT pistol, American MAC-10 submachine gun, and other types of small arms. All this is recorded on video. The village of Cossack Camps is located about 40 kilometers southeast of Kherson, on the left bank of the Dnieper. «The raid in the Cossack Camps was carried out in order to search for DRGs (sabotage and reconnaissance groups — ed.) houses, a cache of small arms, shots for AGS, unaccounted for hunting and traumatic weapons were found. No one was detained, a preventive conversation was held with citizens, weapons were seized, «an employee of one of the Russian law enforcement agencies who participated in the raid explained to RIA Novosti. According to him , the weapons found would be enough to arm a small platoon. Raids to identify saboteurs in the Kherson region have been taking place since the beginning of the week, after the discovery of a cache with weapons and explosives at the Kherson military plant «Pallada», allegedly left by the SBU for sabotage groups in the rear when leaving the city Russian military. In that cache there was a somewhat similar arsenal — AK-74M assault rifles, an RPG-7 grenade launcher with grenades for it, as well as Dragunov sniper rifles, boxes with belts for a heavy machine gun, boxes with RGD-5 and F-1 grenades, explosives and accessories for improvised explosive devices, satellite communications equipment, radio stations, a stockpile of mines for mobile mortars.The source spoke about the fight against Ukrainian saboteurs in Kherson. They managed to get out of the caches thanks to information obtained from the archive abandoned by the Security Service of Ukraine. Last week, RIA Novosti obtained documents from the SBU archive discovered by the Russian security forces, from which it follows that the employees of the service, before fleeing from Kherson, through the head of the Kherson port police department Maxim Zharkov, recruited members of the local territorial defense for sabotage in the territories liberated by the Russian army. During a search in Zharkov's apartment last week, they found a cache of secret documents, grenades, fuses and radio stations. Russian troops entered Kherson on February 24, and since March 2 the city has been under their complete control. Now the Russian military also controls the Kherson region. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
