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Russia’s FSB says Ukrainian saboteurs ‘liquidated’ while trying to enter border region – agencies

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Published: Dec 26, 2022, 12:06 UTC

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service said on Monday that a four-person Ukrainian "sabotage group" had been "liquidated" while trying to enter Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.

Russia’s FSB says Ukrainian saboteurs ‘liquidated’ while trying to enter border region – agencies

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Monday that a four-person Ukrainian “sabotage group” had been “liquidated” while trying to enter Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.

“As a result of a clash on December 25, 2022, four saboteurs who attempted to penetrate the territory of the Bryansk region from Ukraine were destroyed,” state-owned RIA news agency quoted an FSB statement as saying.

The FSB said the alleged saboteurs were armed with foreign-made guns and four improvised explosive devices.

There was no immediate comment on the incident from Ukraine.

(Reporting by Reuters)

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