Russian forces encountered a Ukrainian sabotage group that crossed into Russian area and opened fire on civilians, authorities stated Thursday, with President Vladimir Putin calling the alleged occurrence a terrorist attack.The declarations might not be independently validated, and Kyiv dismissed the claims from Moscow as a purposeful justification.
Bryansk region Governor Alexander Bogomaz said a sabotage and reconnaissance group from Ukraine got in the village of Lyubechanye and fired at a moving vehicle, killing one person and hurting a 10-year-old kid who was hospitalized.
In the Bryansk regions border district of Klimovsky, the FSB of Russia and additional forces of the Russian Defense Ministry are taking steps to damage armed Ukrainian nationalists who broke the state border, Russias Federal Security Service (FSB) said.Civilian casualties were reported, the state-run TASS news agency reported, citing law enforcement agencies.The saboteurs were thought to be holding civilians captive, TASS reported.The Readovka Telegram news channel reported, mentioning unknown sources, that the sabotage group consisted of 40 people.TASS later reported, pointing out eyewitnesses, that the saboteurs might have left the Bryansk area and returned to Ukrainian territory.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there had actually been an attack by Ukrainian fighters and that Putin was being kept constantly updated.Putin had actually been due to visit the southern Stavropol area for a conference on education however would hold a video call rather, he said.
Our soldiers and officers ...
protect against neo-Nazis and terrorists ...
those who today dedicated another terrorist attack, penetrated the border area and opened fire on civilians, Putin stated at the education conference through video link.Ukraine nevertheless dismissed the claims as a purposeful provocation.
The story about (a) sabotage group in Russia is a timeless intentional provocation.
Russia wishes to frighten its people to justify the attack on another country and the growing poverty after the year of war, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhaylo Podolyak said on Twitter.Ukraines command in the north on Feb.
23 had warned that Russia may be preparing a false-flag operation in the location, most likely ...
to accuse the Ukrainian defenders of violating territorial integrity.
Ukraines military intelligence on the other hand described the reports of clashes in the Bryansk area an extension of the improvement of Russia, its purification and liberation from Putins dictatorship, according to the independent Hromadske news outlet.Elsewhere in the Bryansk region, a residential building in the village of Sushany ignited after being struck by a drone, Bogomaz stated, while 2 houses were damaged by mortar fire in the town of Lomakovka.The governor of another Russian border region, Kursk, Roman Starovoyt, stated Ukrainian shelling on the town of Tetkino had left one dead and one injured.He stated the shelling harmed 3 houses and cut power in the village.Russias border regions have routinely reported cross-border aerial strikes given that Moscow invaded Ukraine simply over one year ago.But Thursdays occurrence marks the first reported instance of on-the-ground combating inside Russian territory.AFP contributed reporting.