Europe News Desk!!! Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that a group from Ukraine entered Russian border territory on Thursday and opened fire on civilians in an act of terrorism. Ukrainian saboteurs fired at a civilian car in the border village of Lyubechane, killing one person and injuring a child, the governor of the Bryansk region said, the BBC reported. Today they committed another terrorist act, another crime, entered the border area and opened fire on civilians, Putin said on Russian state TV. They saw that it was a civilian car, with people and children sitting in it, and opened fire. It is such people who set the task of depriving us of historical memory. They will not get anything, we will put pressure on them.
Kiev has strongly denied the Russian claim. Mykhaylo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted that the classic was a deliberate provocation. RF (Russia) wants to scare people to justify attacking another country. Russia previously reported some Ukrainian missile and drone attacks on Russian border areas, including the Bryansk region. But there has been no confirmation of Ukrainian forces crossing into Russia. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that steps are being taken to eliminate the terrorists. The BBC reported that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said FSB forces and regular troops were battling Ukrainian nationalists who had crossed into Russia.
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