The governor of a Russian region bordering Ukraine accused kyiv forces of bombing a Russian border town on Thursday, reporting injuries.
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“Ukrainian armed forces fired on the village of Klimovo. Two apartment buildings were damaged by the bombardment and there are wounded among the inhabitants,” said the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz.
These people “are receiving all the medical assistance” necessary, he continued in a statement broadcast on Telegram, adding that teams of rescuers had been dispatched to the scene.
It was not possible to verify the validity of these accusations independently.
According to the Interfax news agency, which quoted an official from the Ministry of Health, seven people injured in Klimovo were hospitalized, two of them in a condition deemed “serious”.
The locality of Klimovo is located about ten kilometers from the Ukrainian border and has some 13,000 inhabitants.
Russia, which launched a military offensive in Ukraine on February 24, has repeatedly accused kyiv forces of carrying out attacks on its soil.
Earlier Thursday, the Security Services (FSB), quoted by the TASS news agency, accused Ukraine of hitting a border crossing.
In early April, the governor of the Belgorod region, neighboring Bryansk and also bordering, accused Ukrainian helicopters of having made an incursion and hit a fuel depot.