Russian authorities say a Ukrainian grenade attack has destroyed a Russian border facility used by the FSB. Ukraine calls the accusations “fake news.”
“February 21, at 9:50 (local time), an unidentified projectile fired from Ukraine destroyed a border facility used by the FSB’s border guard service in the Rostov region, about 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border,” the Russian security service wrote in a statement.
No one was injured in the incident. The security service FSB has also published a video that shows a small building where both the roof and walls have been destroyed. The video has not been verified.
Ukraine denies being behind such a grenade attack and calls the accusations “fake news.”
“Fake news”
“They carry out various provocations and produce fake news every day, even a couple of times a day,” Pavlo Kovalchuk, a spokesman for a joint military operation against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, said.
“We could not stop them from producing this fake news, but we always emphasize that we do not shoot at civilian infrastructure,” he added.
The West has recently warned of an escalation of the conflict and staged attacks that Russia and pro-Russian separatists could use as a pretext to launch an invasion of Ukraine.
Source : © NTB Scanpix / #Norway Today / #NorwayTodayNews
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