The FSB of Russia stated that, together with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it stopped an attempt by a “Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group” to penetrate the territory of the Bryansk region in the border area of Starodub. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Center for Public Relations of the FSB. The intelligence service claims that four saboteurs were killed.
“At the site of the clash, in addition to foreign weapons, explosive devices, communication and navigation devices, FPV drones with stickers “Property of the FSB of Russia” and Russian symbols were found, which indicates the preparation of provocations and sabotage actions on Russian territory,” the FSB said.
After the FSB issued a statement, the governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that “thanks to the well-coordinated joint actions of the units of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia in the Bryansk region today at 7:00 an attempt to penetrate the territory of the Bryansk region of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was stopped consisting of six militants. According to him, five “saboteurs” were killed in a battle with Russian border guards and the military.
On August 15, Oleksandr Bogomaz reported that in the vicinity of the village of Kurkovichi in the Starodubsky municipal district, “an attempt to penetrate a Ukrainian sabotage reconnaissance group was prevented.” According to him, an employee of an agricultural enterprise was injured, production facilities were partially damaged.
The Russian telegram channel Baza reported that around 12:00 on August 15, FSB border guards found backpacks between the villages of Kurkovichi and Lomakovka on the border with Ukraine. When they began to inspect things, they opened fire from machine guns. During the battle, the “saboteurs” retreated. After a gunfight in the Kurkovichi region, Ukrainian mortar shelling began, due to which the veterinarian of the local milk complex received a shell shock, Baza claims. According to Kommersant , during the battle with the “saboteurs” an ensign of the border service was killed, two border guards were hospitalized.
Source : MEDUZA