The Russian Ministry of Defense released a battle report stating that the Russian army eliminated 80 Polish soldiers in the Beidun area! The original intention of Russian officials to release such news was to show the outside world the powerful combat capabilities of the Russian army. However, this has brought about a very negative consequence: it is tantamount to admitting to the outside world that Russia has acquiesced to the existence of Poland and the "NATO Volunteers" on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Previous information showed that Poland is likely to have sent troops to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian army confront the Russian army. In particular, there are as many as 18 "Crab" self-propelled artillery pieces provided by the Polish army in the Beidon area, and they have played a significant role on the battlefield. Therefore, the outside world also believes that these artillery are likely to be operated by the Polish army. However, Polish officials and Ukrainian authorities have never publicly acknowledged this, and Russia has not publicly identified it. Therefore, the so-called "Poland sending troops to Ukraine to participate in the war" has always been ambiguous.
But now Russia has publicly announced that dozens of Polish soldiers were killed by Russian troops on the battlefield. This is an official and authoritative way to prove the fact that Polish troops are present in Ukraine. However, from another perspective, this is tantamount to revealing Russia's bottom line to the outside world, that is, Russia has acquiesced in the existence of NATO troops in the form of volunteers on the Ukrainian battlefield.
In terms of nature, volunteer troops and mercenaries are two different concepts. Mercenaries are mainly armed forces hired for economic gain, and "unofficial" is their main feature. The Volunteer Army has a relatively deep national background. It is basically a country's regular army that "changes its appearance and enters the battlefield." Now the Russian side has publicly identified the Polish army as having suffered heavy casualties on the front line, which shows that Poland has sent a considerable number of organized troops to help the Ukrainian army fight in the form of volunteers.
As a member of NATO, Poland sent its own troops to participate in the war in Ukraine. This was originally a very confidential matter. The Poles did not dare to report or admit it publicly. Because Poland does not know what kind of violent reaction Russia will make after learning the truth of the matter. But now it is and the Russians who have revealed this matter themselves, and after Russia revealed this matter, they did not threaten to take retaliatory actions against Poland. This made Poland breathe a big sigh of relief: since Russia already knew that the Polish army had entered and publicly claimed to have destroyed the Polish army, in this case the Russian army did not take violent retaliatory actions. This is equivalent to Russia On the other hand, it “tacitly agreed that NATO countries would send troops into the war in Ukraine to participate in the war.” Therefore, Russia's move is simply connivance to Poland and NATO.
So from this perspective, it would be unwise for the Russian public to declare the elimination of dozens of Polish soldiers. Because now everyone knows one thing: the Russian army has no overreaction to NATO countries sending volunteers to participate in the war! At most, Russia can claim that foreign reinforcements have been removed from the battlefield. In this case, NATO and other NATO countries are likely to send more troops to Ukraine, because everyone now believes that the Russian army will not react strongly to this. Thus. The pressure on the Russian military is likely to be even greater.
