FSB has identified a group of saboteurs in the Bryansk region

The FSB of Russia neutralized a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group (DRG) in the Bryansk region, which was preparing a number of terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation. About it informs TASS with reference to the press service of the department.

According to the FSB, the group included members of the Security Service of the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine. On August 30, during the operational-combat activities in the Navlinsky district, the security forces liquidated two militants. Five more were detained, three of them were injured.

The FSB said that the saboteurs had American-made machine guns with silent firing devices, powerful explosive devices, as well as a large number of grenades, cartridges and night vision devices. The department clarified that the issue of initiating a criminal case is now being decided.

Prior to this, Ukrainian saboteurs made several attempts to penetrate into the Bryansk region from the territory of Ukraine. August 22 Governor of the region Alexander Bogomaz informedthat the enemy tried to break through the state border in the Klimovsky district. As a result, the Russian military inflicted a massive artillery strike on the DRG. There were no violations of the border, the FSB stressed.

Since October 19, 2022, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the average level of response has been set in the Bryansk region. The region also has an indefinite high (“yellow”) level of terrorist threat.