What’s going on in Bryansk? According to Moscow, heavy fighting has apparently broken out in the southwestern city near the border with Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin (70) publicly spoke of a “terrorist attack” by Ukraine. “They saw it was a civilian car, they saw civilians sitting there and kids opened fire on them,” he said Thursday. Ukrainian observers warned of Russian disinformation.
In the Klimovsk district, Russian troops, with the support of the defense ministry, carried out an operation to “eradicate armed Ukrainian nationalists” who had crossed the border, Russia’s domestic intelligence service FSB said Thursday, according to the Interfax news agency. This information could not be independently verified.
According to Russian media reports, a group of pro-Ukrainian saboteurs attacked Russian villages, shot at a school bus and took several people hostage. Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomas wrote on Telegram that one person was killed and a 10-year-old child was injured.
Ukraine denies all allegations
The Russian governor of another border area, the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, reported the bombing of the village of Tetkino, which left one dead and one injured. Three houses were damaged there. There would be power cuts.
An adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Mykhailo Podoliak, spoke of a “classic provocation”. Russia wants to intimidate its own people to justify the war of aggression in the face of growing poverty. Videos of Russian freedom fighters calling for the overthrow of Putin were posted on Ukrainian Telegram channels – also shot in Bryansk.
The information situation remains unclear
“The partisan movement in Russia is getting stronger and more aggressive. Fear you partisans!” tweeted Podolak. Ukrainian authorities have rejected media reports of an alleged hostage-taking and the shooting of a school bus. Distance learning has been conducted at the border for months due to the heightened risk of terrorism.
Suschany village administration also denied that several people there had been held hostage by pro-Ukrainian fighters.
Source: Blick
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