A strong explosion was heard in Kolomna, a city in Russia in the Moscow region 113 km southeast of the capital. The first images have started appearing on social media.
"The explosion occurred in the air. We are most likely talking about a drone. But so far it's impossible to say for sure, since they can't find the pieces of the wreck.", the police told the Tass agency.
First the drone raids up to a hundred kilometers from Moscow, with accusations of US involvement, Ansa reports the thought of Muscovite rhetoric. Now an infiltration of “saboteurs” in the Bryansk border region. Russia continues to denounce attacks on its security from Kiev. Two men killed and a child injured is the toll provided by the authorities of what President Vladimir Putin has called a "terrorist attack” carried out by “neo-Nazis” in the service of their Western “masters”.
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According to the Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, the whole story is instead just "a classic provocation” of Moscow. For his part, Kiev denounced an attack by Russian drones in Bryslav, in the Kherson region, which would have hit civilians in line while they received humanitarian aid, causing nine injuries.
Volodymyr Zelensky echoed Putin's words: “We will expel all the occupiers and they will have to answer for everything”.
The Ukrainian Defense announced yesterday that Russian forces are advancing inside the city of Bakhmut, in Donbass, in some areas the Wagner flags can already be seen hoisted.
The saboteurs in Russia
The attacks on Russian territory took place in the village of Lyubechane and in that of Susany by a command of about forty "saboteurs".
In the first location, the assailants opened fire on a Lada Niva off-road vehicle pur "seeing that there were children on board”. Emergency services said the man driving was killed and an 11-year-old boy injured, but managed to get two other younger children on board to safety.
A few hours later the governor of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomas, said another man died, but did not specify the circumstances. In the evening, the internal security services (FSB) said that the Ukrainian nationalists had been pushed back into Ukrainian territory.
The site of the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that the attack was claimed by a Russian far-right militia allied with Ukrainian forces, Russian Volunteer Corps, founded in August of the year sip by the oligarch Denis Kapustin.
“It is time for ordinary citizens of Russia to realize that they are not slaves, start a rebellion, fight!” says a man in a video who introduces himself as a member of the organization, adding however that it does not kill civilians.
Meanwhile, the Russians denounce other attacks by Ukrainian drones: one without victims on the village of Sushany, in the same Bryansk region, the other on that of Tetkino, in the Kursk border region, with one civilian killed and one wounded. An explosion was then reported in a forest near Tula, about 170 kilometers south of Moscow, where various arms manufacturing industries are concentrated. According to the governor, it could be a crashed drone.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov He said that some of the Ukrainian drone strikes, especially those in December against Ryazan and Saratov airbases, where three Russian servicemen died, “would not have been possible without serious assistance from the United States, including target selection, intelligence provision and other assistance."