Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces committed a terror attack in Bryansk by opening fire on civilians riding in a car.

“Today they committed another terrorist act, another crime, entered the border territory and opened fire on civilians. They saw that it was a civilian car, they saw that civilians and children were sitting there, no, an ordinary Niva, they opened fire on them,” Putin said, as quoted by Sputnik news agency.

The situation in the settlements of Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region is under the control of law enforcement agencies, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.

“The situation in the settlements of the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region is under the control of law enforcement agencies,” the FSB said.

Earlier in the day, Russia’s Federal Security Service confirmed that a group of Ukrainian nationalists penetrated the border, and an operation to liquidate the infiltrators is underway.

Prior to that, Bryansk region governor Alexander Bogomaz stated that one person was killed by the Ukrainian attack.

Source: Agencies