Putin on Events in Bryansk Region: It's a Terrorist Act

The Kremlin leader described incidents in the region “as another terrorist act, another crime.” Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to the events in the Bryansk region today with so-called “Ukrainian saboteurs” calling them a “terrorist act.” The Kremlin head described what happened in the region “as another terrorist act, another crime.” “They broke into the border area, where they opened fire on civilians. One saw that it was a civilian car, where civilians and children were sitting. An ordinary Niva. These are exactly the kind of people who have set out to deprive us of our historical memory, to deprive us of our history, to deprive us of our traditions, our language,” Putin said. The Russian president stressed that “the bosses of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis will overlook the saboteurs’ attack”. Yet, referring to the overall situation, Putin said: “They have no chance, we will nail them down.” As a reminder, today Russia announced the alleged “penetration of Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups into two villages in the Bryansk Region” on the border with the Chernihiv Region. The aggressor country is promoting reports of shootings and hostage-taking and the deaths of civilians. Meanwhile, people who call themselves fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps have taken responsibility for what had happenned. They said they had come “to show their compatriots that free Russian people with weapons in their hands can fight the regime.” The office of the President of Ukraine stated that the events in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation with the so-called “Ukrainian saboteurs” are a deliberate provocation of Russia itself. A week ago, Ukraine’s intelligence service warned of impending provocations by Russia.