By Bond Robertson 
The official news agency of Russia palm Reports that Russian forces are locked in a battle with what they call a Ukrainian sabotage group in the Bryansk region – more than 100 kilometers inside Russia.
– Groups of Ukrainian saboteurs entered two villages and took the population hostage in one. Soldiers from the National Guard clashed with them, says a TASS source, who is supposed to be from the police.
The Russian intelligence agency FSB has also claimed that an operation is underway against Ukrainians in the region, he said Interfax.
Shooting civilians
At 1 pm, the Russian News Agency reported Ria Novesti The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called the attack a terrorist attack.
– What happened in the Bryansk region was a terrorist attack. He said in a statement that the attackers fired at a civilian car, although they saw children in it.
Answers: President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian allegations of an attack were a “deliberate provocation”. Photo: Gleb Garanich/Reuters/NTB
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He describes that the attackers crossed the border area and opened fire on civilians.
– Today they committed another terrorist crime. Putin continues that the same people set themselves the task of depriving us of history, traditions and language.
Deliberate provocation
Reuters earlier reported that the president was involved in the alleged Ukrainian attack.
– Putin is in the Kremlin and receives information from the security services and the Minister of Defense about the situation in Bryansk, says spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
He adds:
– Events in Bryansk region terrorist attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejects Russian allegations that a Ukrainian subversive group attacked civilians inside Russia.
– Reports of an attack in Bryansk are a deliberate provocation from Russia, according to Reuters.
– Shoot the vehicles
Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz reported that Ukrainian vandals attacked a car.
– Ukrainian saboteurs opened fire on a speeding car in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region. Bogomaz wrote that one resident was killed and a 10-year-old boy was wounded cable.
He adds that Russian forces “are taking all necessary steps to eliminate the subversive group.”
Negates
At the same time, the acting deputy governor of Brjansk denied that a school bus had been shot at, as previously reported.
– He said that the Ukrainian unit failed to enter the school in the Bryansk region RIA Novosti.
In recent days, the Russians have repeatedly claimed that Ukraine has sent combat drones to Russia. The allegations were partially refuted by the Ukrainian side.