Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian armed forces destroyed 14 of their own servicemen who surrendered at one of the lines of contact, where Russian servicemen were also injured.
"Here is what was reported yesterday: at one of the lines of contact, 14 people - Ukrainian servicemen - surrendered. Fourteen! But it was too late, and a few of our military stayed there with them. They didn’t even guard them, so that later in the morning the soldiers could be taken out of the combat zone. The enemy fired three hundred shells on that one spot! Destroyed all their soldiers," Putin said on Thursday at a meeting with the acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin. "Unfortunately, our guys were also injured," the president added.
He stressed that in Ukraine, Russia was dealing with an extremely brutal regime that spared neither Russians nor its own.
"Unfortunately, we are in fact dealing with a regime that is most brutal not only towards our citizens, but also towards its own," Putin said. "They behave in an extremely cynical and cruel way," he repeated.
"Our goal is to push them [Ukrainian troops] away to such a distance so that they cannot cause us any harm," the Russian head of state explained.
Addressing Pushilin, Putin noted that the issues he raised about protecting the population from shelling and the need to expand the capacity of roads were interrelated. "These communication routes, railroads and highways, they need to be built in such a way that both the speed of movement is increased and that they are at a safe enough distance from the combat zone. We will do all this," assured the president.
Putin Announces Plans to Create Security Concept of Union State
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday that there are plans to create a security concept of the Union State against the background of growing tensions.
"In this context, the issue of the beginning of the preparation of the security concept of the Union State, which was put on the agenda of the meeting and considered today, is of great importance. This document is meant to formulate the fundamental tasks of our cooperation in the sphere of growing tensions on external borders of our states, the sanctions and information war unleashed against us," Putin said at the meeting of Supreme State Council of the Union State.
Ukrainian saboteurs attempt raid in Russia – official
Russia’s armed forces and its border guard in the Bryansk region have prevented a Ukrainian sabotage-and-reconnaissance unit from entering the country for an operation, governor Aleksandr Bogomaz reported on Thursday.
According to the official, the unit of 20 persons had tried to penetrate Russian territory near the village of Sluchovsk in the Pogarsky district in Bryansk Region, north of Ukraine. However, their attempt was thwarted by Russian forces, who opened fire on the group, Bogomaz said.
Earlier in the day, the governor of the Ukraine-bordering region also reported that Kiev’s troops had launched a mortar strike on the village of Zapesochye, in the Pogarsky district. He claimed that there were no casualties as a result of the attack, but noted that ten residential houses and one car were damaged in the shelling.
On Wednesday, Bogomaz also reported that a Ukrainian UAV had dropped an explosive device in the region, injuring one person.
Last month, another group of Ukrainian saboteurs had crossed into Bryansk Region and launched raids on several local villages, killing at least two civilians and injuring one child. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported at the time that it had stopped the group by pushing them back to Ukrainian territory and hitting them with a “massive artillery strike.”
That incident was branded a “terrorist attack” by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called the people responsible for such acts “neo-Nazis and terrorists.”
Russian regions bordering Ukraine have regularly come under attack by Kiev’s forces since the start of the protracted conflict. Local authorities in Bryansk and Kursk Regions have repeatedly reported shelling by Ukrainian forces, which has occasionally resulted in civilian casualties but has caused damage to numerous residential buildings.
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