Russian officials accused Ukrainian saboteurs on Thursday of crossing into western Russia and attacking local villages, an accusation that Ukraine denied and alleged would be used by Moscow to step up attacks.
saboteurs on Thursday of crossing into western Russia and attacking local villages, an accusation that Ukraine denied and alleged would be used by Moscow to step up attacks.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the Russian reports as "a classic deliberate provocation." Tass, citing Russian law enforcement, reported earlier that the saboteurs were holding up to six people hostage. The local governor said the group had fired on a vehicle there, killing one man and wounding a 10-year-old child.
Tass reported, citing an unnamed security official, that two villages in the Bryansk region -- Sushany and Lyubechane -- were under attack by "several dozen armed fighters."
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