14:30, 2 March 2023
YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Russian forces are conducting an operation to destroy a group of Ukrainian "armed nationalists" that intruded across the border into Bryansk region, Russian state news agencies reported citing a statement from the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The FSB said in the statement that its own forces and the army were trying to destroy what it described as "an armed group of Ukrainian nationalists" who had crossed the border.
The security service said in the statement that "..the FSB and the attached forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense are taking measures to destroy armed Ukrainian nationalists who violated the state border” in the Klimovsky district of Bryansk region.
Earlier in the day, Aleksandr Bogomaz, the regional governor, said that a group of Ukrainian operatives had launched a raid into the region’s territory, adding that the group attacked a moving car, killing one person and injuring a ten-year-old child. He said Ukrainian armed forces had launched a drone attack and fired artillery shells at other areas near the border.
"Today, a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group penetrated the Klimovsky district in the village of Lubechanye," Bogomaz said on his Telegram channel. "Saboteurs fired on a moving car. As a result of the attack, one resident was killed and a ten-year-old child was wounded."
Some media reports suggested that the saboteurs also had taken several local residents hostage, a claim that has not been confirmed by local authorities.
Ukraine didn’t immediately comment on the Russian reports.