Kiev's operatives, who had crossed into Russia’s Bryansk Region on Thursday, have been forced back into Ukrainian territory and hit with a “massive artillery strike,” the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has said.
Earlier, the Russian military and security services reported that saboteurs had crossed into the Bryansk Region bordering Ukraine and launched raids on several local villages. At least two civilians were killed in those attacks, which also left a child injured, the local authorities said.
“In order to avoid civilian casualties as well as damage to civilian infrastructure, the enemy was pushed back to Ukrainian territory, where they were hit with a massive artillery strike,” the FSB told the Russian media. “A raid by the Ukrainian nationalists in the Klimovsky District of the Bryansk Region has been thwarted.”
In a separate statement earlier the same day, the FSB said that a large number of explosive devices of various types had been found in the area. Bomb squads were deployed to disarm the explosives. Bryansk Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz also reported artillery and mortar strikes in the area.
Russian President Vladimir Putin branded the incident a “terrorist attack,” calling people responsible for such acts “neo-Nazis and terrorists.” He also suggested that those behind Thursday's raids might have also been behind the assassination of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, whose car was blown up near Moscow in August.
Russian regions bordering Ukraine have regularly come under attacks by Kiev’s forces since the start of the ongoing conflict. The local authorities in Bryansk and Kursk Regions have repeatedly reported shelling by the Ukrainian forces, which has sometimes resulted in civilian casualties.
Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:
▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 50 Ukrainian soldiers and two vehicles near Kupyansk. In addition, Russian artillery destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot in the Kharkov region;
▪️Russian troops eliminated over 160 Ukrainian servicemen, seven armored fighting vehicles, and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer in the Krasny Liman direction;
▪️In the Donetsk People's Republic, during an offensive by Russian troops, air strikes and artillery fire destroyed up to 270 Ukrainian personnel, six infantry fighting vehicles, three armored fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a Msta- B howitzer, and a D-30 howitzer. In addition, Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian hangar with military equipment and a communications unit in the Avdeevka area in the DPR;
▪️The Russian Army eliminated over 80 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, two armored vehicles, two pickup trucks, a Msta-B howitzer, and a D-30 howitzer during an offensive in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, 30 vehicles, a Msta-B howitzer, and an ammunition depot in the Kherson direction;
▪️In the area of Kramatorsk in the DPR, a Ukrainian self-propelled Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile launcher was destroyed. In addition, a radar for an S-300 surface-to-air missile system was destroyed in the Dnepropetrovsk region;
The reconnaissance UAVs receive the information about the target, then the crew strikes the enemy-fortified areas with 203mm high-precision artillery ordnance.
After completing the missions, the crew alters its position to avoid possible return fire.
The self-propelled artillery systems suppress positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 203mm projectiles both day and night.
▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 airplane and Mi-8 helicopter in the Donetsk direction;
▪️Russian troops shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 jet and a HIMARS MLRS missile in the Kherson region;
▪️The Russian Army eliminated a HIMARS MLRS and 14 AFU UAVs in the Kharkov region, DPR and Kherson region.
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