Tag: Bryansk

Cross-Border Attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region ‘Blocked, Destroyed’: Moscow

An attack on Russia’s western Belgorod region, initially launched on May 22 from neighboring Ukraine, has been decisively routed, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. “As a result of air strikes, artillery fire, and action by units of the Western Military District … the nationalist formations have been blocked and destroyed,” the ministry said in…


Moscow Blames ‘Ukrainian Saboteurs’ for Attack in Western Belgorod Region

Ukrainian saboteurs have attacked Russia’s Belgorod region, injuring three people and causing significant material damage, the region’s governor claimed on May 22. Kyiv, for its part, denies complicity in the attack, attributing it instead to “violent resistance movements” opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin. One of Russia’s westernmost regions, Belgorod shares a roughly 540-mile-long border…


Ukrainian ‘Saboteurs’ Attack Russian Border Region, Moscow Claims

Russian authorities on March 2 claimed they were fending off a “terrorist attack” in the country’s western Bryansk region, which shares a border with Ukraine’s northern regions of Sumy and Chernihiv. “Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated a border district of the Bryansk region on Thursday morning,” Russia’s TASS news agency reported, adding that at least one person…