Russian soldiers allege they are engaged in combat with a Ukrainian sabotage group in the bordering Bryansk region of Ukraine after the organisation took hostages in a business, according to Russian news outlets on Thursday.
“Ukrainian saboteurs penetrated two villages and kidnapped inhabitants in one of them. The terrorists and Rosgvardia soldiers engaged in combat “An unknown source in the Russian security services made the claim, according to TASS.
Reuters couldn’t immediately confirm the stories.
Less than a kilometre from Russia’s border with Ukraine, in the town of Lubechanye, six persons, according to local emergency services cited by the RIA news agency, had been taken hostage in a shop.
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An earlier report from a provincial Russian official said that a Ukrainian “sabotage group” had entered Russia from Ukraine and shot and killed one person there.
“A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance unit entered the Klimovsky neighbourhood in the Lubechanye settlement today. On a moving automobile, saboteurs fired. The incident resulted in the death of one person and the injury of a ten-year-old child “Governor of Bryansk Alexander Bogomaz posted a message on his Telegram channel.
According to him, drone attacks and artillery shells were also conducted by Ukrainian military troops against other bordering localities.
