The president Vladimir Putin said that Russia hit”terrorist attack» in the southern region Bryansk which borders on Ukraine and promised to crush it Ukrainian sabotage groupas he called it, which opened fire on civilians.

Ukraine accused Russia of staging fake “call”but also hinted that Russian anti-government militants had indeed carried out some kind of operation.

Against the backdrop of information about bombings and sporadic sabotageRussia’s border regions have become increasingly unstable since Moscow invaded Ukraine a year ago in a so-called “special military operation.”

In a televised address, Putin accused the group of opening fire on civilians in a car, including children. its ruler Bryansk Alexander Bogomaz stated that the attack had killed two people and wounded an eleven-year-old child.

“They won’t achieve anything. We will crush them,” Putin said, claiming that the group consisted of people who want to steal Russian history and language.

OUR Federal Security Service FSB Initially, it was reported that the army and the FSB were trying to neutralize an “armed group of Ukrainian nationalists” that had crossed the border.

Later, the FSB reported that the situation was under the control of law enforcement agencies. He said that a large number of explosive devices had been found and that they were being neutralized. He did not refer to reports by state news agencies about the hostage-taking.

IN two videos armed people circulating on the net calling themselves “Russian Volunteer Corps“, they said they crossed the border to fight the “damned regime of Putin and the Kremlin,” as they called it.

calling themselves Russians”liberators”, the militants called on the Russians to take up arms and rebel against the authorities. They stated that they did not open fire on civilians.

Reuters currently unable to verify the authenticity of the video.

Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov told reporters that law enforcement would identify those responsible and that security chiefs briefed Putin on the situation.

Kyiv accused Moscow of provocations

Advisor to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak tweeted: “The story of the Ukrainian subversive group in the RO (Russian Federation) is a classic deliberate provocation.”

Podolyak said that Russia “wants to scare its own people to justify attacking another country and increasing poverty after a year of war.”

A representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence hinted that the invention of the sabotage group is a sign of internal strife in Russia.

“These are people with weapons in their hands who are fighting the Putin regime and those who support it… Maybe the Russians will start to wake up, realize something and take some concrete steps,” he said. Andrey Yusof in the Ukrainian edition of Hromadske.

British military intelligence reported Wednesday yesterday that Russia was launching attacks from drones in Ukraine from the Bryansk regionlocated in the north of Ukraine and closer to the capital Kyiv than other launch sites.

Earlier, Russia accused Ukrainian saboteurs of breaking into Bryansk. In December, the FSB reported that a four-man Ukrainian “sabotage group” had been “neutralized” while trying to enter the territory.

This week, Putin called on the FSB to step up its measures against espionage and what he called the terrorist threat from Ukraine and the West.

“Your task is to put obstacles in the way of sabotage groups, to stop attempts to illegally transfer weapons and ammunition to Russia,” he said in his speech yesterday Tuesday.

Reuters