The Russian security services (FSB) claimed Thursday evening March 2 to have repelled the "
Ukrainian nationalists
" infiltrated according to Moscow in the Russian region of Bryansk, bordering Ukraine, and who opened fire on civilians.
"
As a result of the measures taken, the incursion of Ukrainian nationalists has been put an end
," the FSB said in a statement, quoted by Russian news agencies.
"
The enemy was pushed back into Ukrainian territory and targeted there by a massive artillery strike
," the statement said.
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"Saboteurs"
Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier today denounced a "
terrorist
" attack after Moscow reported an incursion by Ukrainian "
saboteurs
" into a region in southwestern Russia bordering Ukraine, which Kyiv denied.
Russian authorities say a civilian was killed and an 11-year-old child injured after 'saboteurs
'
opened fire on a car in the village of Lyubetchane in the Bryansk region, just on the border with Ukraine .
The Ukrainian presidency has denied these allegations, seeing in them a
“deliberate provocation”
which, according to it, aims to justify the military offensive that Moscow has been carrying out in Ukraine for more than a year.
Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, several Russian regions have been targeted by bombardments.
But the incursions of
“saboteurs”
are rare.
In a speech broadcast on television, Vladimir Putin denounced an attack by
“neo-Nazis”
and
“terrorists”
who
“opened fire on civilians”
.
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According to the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has canceled a trip planned for Thursday in the Russian Caucasus to follow the evolution of the situation in the Bryansk region.
“We are talking about a terrorist attack.
Steps are being taken to destroy terrorists
,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Moscow this week reported an upsurge in Ukrainian drone incursions into Russian territory and into annexed Crimea.
An aircraft even crashed, for the first time, in the Moscow region.
