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Published: 02 March 2023
Ukrainian operations are continuing inside Russian territories after the Russian-Ukrainian war entered its second year in an attempt by Ukraine to transfer the battles to Russi, using the drone attacks earlier this week.
Edited by| Tony Wild
Politic section - CJ journalist
KYIV, Ukraine – 2 march 2023
Russian officials said that Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated across the border into western Russia and attacked local villages, and the authorities and the emergency service of the Bryansk region reported that up to 6 people were taken hostage by Ukrainian gunmen in a shop in the village of lyubchany infiltrated into the Bryansk region.
The governor of the Russian province of Bryansk, Alexander bogomaz, announced on Thursday that a Ukrainian sabotage group infiltrated the klimovsk District of Bryansk province, on the Russian-Ukrainian border, where criminal and terrorist operations were carried out in the area.
The Russian Federal Security Service said that the fight with the sabotage unit is taking place in the Bryansk region.
The Federal Security Service was quoted by the Russian state Tass news agency as saying that “activities to eliminate armed Ukrainian nationalists who violated the state border” were underway.
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.
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Thursday’s apparent incursion was also embarrassing for Russian President Vladimir Putin, coming days after he ordered the Federal Security Service to tighten controls on Russia’s border with Ukraine.
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.”
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, said the group fired on a vehicle in Lyubechane, killing one man and wounding a child. He also said that a Ukrainian drone struck a house in the Sushany, setting it ablaze.
In Ukraine on Thursday, three people were killed and six others were injured when a Russian missile hit a five-story apartment building in a southeastern city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said several floors of the building were destroyed in the strike, which occurred while it was still dark.
The State Emergency Service said in an online statement that it had rescued 11 people so far.
Meanwhile, a fierce battle continued for control of Bakhmut, a key eastern stronghold where Ukrainian officials say they might strategically withdraw.
Ukraine’s General Staff reported that the Russian forces “continue to advance and storm the city,” but Kyiv’s troops repelled some of the attacks on the ruined city. Donetsk regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko reported one person was wounded in Bakhmut on Thursday morning.
Bakhmut was among cities and villages in the Donetsk region that came under Russian shelling, according to the General Staff update.
Taking the city could not only give the Russian forces a rare battlefield gain after months of setbacks but might rupture Ukraine’s supply lines and allow the Kremlin’s forces to press toward other Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk.
Ukrainian forces targeted another Russian border area in Kursk.
The governor of the Kursk Region, Roman starovoit, reported that the Ukrainian armed forces shelled the village of tetkino in the Kursk region, resulting in casualties.
