The Russian military prevented the violation of the state border by Ukrainian saboteurs: five people were killed and two infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, the Ministry of Defense reported. One person was taken prisoner. The incident occurred near the settlement of Mityakinskaya, Rostov region. None of the Russian military or border guards were injured. In Kiev, messages sent by saboteurs were called “disinformation” and demanded to stop the “fake factory”. The Russian military destroyed two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) using anti-tank weapons that crossed the border in the Rostov region. As a result, five "violators of the border of the Russian Federation from the sabotage group that penetrated from the territory of Ukraine" were killed, the press service of the Southern Military District of the Ministry of Defense reported.

“There are no casualties among the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the border troops of the FSB of Russia,” a source in the Southern Military District told Interfax.

The incident occurred on Monday, February 21, at about 06:00 Moscow time near the settlement of Mityakinskaya. Ukrainians crossed the border for an emergency evacuation of a sabotage group of the Armed Forces. The Russian border guards, having discovered the BMP, requested reinforcements from the military. “Both infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed by fire from anti-tank weapons by a unit of the Russian armed forces that quickly arrived at the site of the clash,” the statement of the Southern Military District says.

During the battle, none of the Russian military and border guards were injured.

According to the director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, at a meeting of the Security Council, one of the saboteurs was taken prisoner. The head of the special service also said that Russia has recorded cases of shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hitting the territory of the Russian Federation, primarily in the Rostov region.

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“Stop the Fake Factory”

Kyiv denies that the Ukrainian military crossed the border with Russia in the Rostov region. The message of the Russian defense department about the destruction of the BMP was called a "fake" there, reports Reuters.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also denies reports of attacks on Donetsk and Lugansk and shelling of Russian territory.

“I categorically refute the disinformation of the Russian Federation. Ukraine: did not attack Donetsk, Lugansk; did not send saboteurs or armored personnel carriers across the border; did not shell the territory of the Russian Federation or a checkpoint on the border; did not commit sabotage. Does not plan such activities. I demand that the Russian Federation immediately stop the fake factory, ”Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

Back to news | None of the border guards were injured.

“On February 21, at 09:50, an unidentified projectile fired from the territory of Ukraine completely destroyed the place of duty of the border patrols of the border guards of the FSB of Russia in the Rostov region, located at a distance of about 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border,” the FSB Public Relations Center said.

Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, claims that Kiev "has nothing to do with the shelling." The border service of Ukraine called the information about the shelling "an outright provocation", noting that Moscow could not indicate the exact place where the shell hit.

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to open a case on the fact of the destruction of the border checkpoint in the Rostov region by a projectile fired from the territory of Ukraine.

The Ministry of State Security of the DPR previously reported that a Ukrainian sabotage group, according to preliminary information, penetrated the territory of the self-proclaimed self-proclaimed republic in the south in order to get to the border of Russia. “On February 21, approximately at 08.10 [coincides with Moscow time], an enemy sabotage group broke through in the Novoazovsky district of the DPR,” the agency’s website reports. As a result of the breakthrough, a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the People's Militia Department of the Republic was blown up. The fighters blocked the central paths, military operations began.

In early February, the US State Department reported that Russia had fabricated a video that would later be used as a pretext for invading Ukraine. According to The New York Times sources, the footage shows the aftermath of the "explosions", fake Ukrainian military equipment and Turkish drones. “This video, if released, could give [Russian President Vladimir] Putin the spark he needs to start and justify military action against Ukraine,” the post said.

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