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MADRID, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported this Thursday that the “Ukrainian saboteurs” responsible for the attack in the Russian region of Bryansk have been expelled to Ukrainian territory, where, later, they have been killed with an “attack massive artillery”.
“In order to avoid casualties of the civilian population and damage to civilian infrastructure, the enemy has been driven back into the territory of Ukraine, where a massive artillery attack has been inflicted on it,” the FSB said in a statement. according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
The Russian authorities had denounced hours before the death of two people after an offensive perpetrated by “Ukrainian saboteurs” in the town of Klimovski, located in the Bryansk region, near the border with Ukraine. In addition, a child under the age of ten has been injured.
In addition, official sources cited by the Russian news agency TASS had also warned that the assailants had broken into two towns in Bryansk and had taken up to six people hostage. Following this, the FSB had confirmed an operation against “armed Ukrainian nationalists who have violated the border.”
Authorship has been claimed by the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a unit of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine created in August 2022 and made up of far-right Russians who previously fought within the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion group and other Ukrainian units in the Donbas region (east) since 2014, as reported by the Ukrainian UNIAN news agency. The group uses symbols of the Russian Liberation Army — known as the Vlasov Army — which collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.
From Russia, President Vladimir Putin has described what happened as “a terrorist act” and “a crime” and has denounced that the assailants crossed the border from Ukraine and “opened fire on civilians.” “They saw that it was a civilian car. They saw that there were civilians and children,” he lamented, referring to an attack on a vehicle in the town of Klimovski.
Briansk, Kursk and other Russian regions located on the border have been the scene of attacks attributed to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, mainly with drones, in the framework of the invasion of Ukraine, unleashed on February 24, 2022 by order of President Putin.