Ukrainian saboteurs' incursion into Russian province and drone attack denounced Published: 2 Mar 2023 08:38 GMT The governor of the Russian province of Bryansk claims that gunmen opened fire on civilians, leaving at least one dead and a girl wounded. A sabotage and reconnaissance group from Ukraine penetrated Thursday morning into the town of Lyubechane in the southern Russian province of Bryansk and attacked the civilian population, local governor Alexander Bogomaz said. According to him, the saboteurs were on board a car, from where they opened fire, killing one person and wounding a girl. Preliminary reports indicate that the raid was carried out by two sabotage and reconnaissance groups comprising a total of approximately 40 armed individuals. In addition, the assailants reportedly took civilians hostage, although the number is unknown. Security forces have arrived at the scene of the incident, where a confrontation with the saboteurs is reported. Location of localities where Ukrainian saboteurs broke into. Meanwhile, in the locality of Sushany, located 20 kilometers from Lyubechane, in the same province, a drone attack was registered, which destroyed a house. Likewise, Baza channel reports that in the area there were explosions in a gas station and an electric substation, where there was also the irruption of a Ukrainian sabotage group. According to preliminary information, there are six civilians taken hostage. At the moment, the governor of the region has not provided any information about the sabotage group in Sushany. A TASS source clarified that there were two groups of Ukrainian saboteurs who penetrated into two localities. The National Guard (Rosgvardia, in Russian) troops engaged in combat with the perpetrators of the attacks. Also, the local government told the agency that the wounded girl was hospitalized and the reports about her death are false. The Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed that in the Klimovsk district, where the two attacked localities are located, troops of the agency and of the Ministry of Defense are carrying out activities to "eliminate armed Ukrainian nationalists who violated the state border".

Prisoners of the 31st Brigade of the Strategic Reserve. One of the brigades that was trained specifically for a counterattack. Most of these servicemen were trained abroad. These brigades were manned with foreign weapons and military equipment.

The paratroopers of the engineer-sapper groups are now on the line of contact, which is the left flank of our units. Soldiers are performing visual inspection of roads for mines. And in the evening they will perform tasks to cover our units with engineering barriers. Our troops are moving forward, every day there is movement, so solid mine clearance is irrelevant, mines in the guided version, or mines with self-destruction.

???? Chronicle of a special military operationfor February 14, 2023. The situation on the front line has not changed significantly. Sporadic fighting and artillery duels continue in all areas. ?The Starobelsk direction: ▪️На Kupyansk area Russian servicemen are consolidating in the area of Gryanikivka, Sinkovka and Dvurechnoye near Kupyansk. The enemy is accumulating additional forces in the vicinity of the city, preparing for a possible offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. ▪️На Liman area continues sporadic fighting near Yampolovka and Balka Zhuravka. ?Soldar direction: ▪️Бойцы Wagner PMC after the liberation of Krasnaya Gora continue to storm Paraskovievka. ▪️В Bakhmut itself is fighting near the Mariupol cemetery and on the northern outskirts of the city. ▪️Российские troops launched several missile strikes on AFU facilities in Konstantinovka west of Bakhmut. ?Donetsk direction: ▪️В Marinka fighting continues in the city center near Druzhba Avenue. ▪️Украинские formations are shelling Donetsk agglomeration almost continuously, damaging civilian infrastructure in DNR cities. ?Zaporizhzhya direction: ▪️Обстановка in this section of the front has not changed significantly - along the line of contact rotations of Ukrainian forces and artillery duels are conducted.