The Kremlin answered the question about the involvement of NATO in the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region

The use of Western ammunition by the Ukrainian military speaks of NATO’s involvement in the conflict, but in the case of the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region, it is more important who held the weapon in their hands, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters.

At the briefing, Peskov was asked if this attack could be considered international, given that the boy in Bryansk was wounded by a NATO-caliber bullet.

“Different ammunition, of course, is used by the Ukrainian armed forces, nationalist units. A variety of ammunition, including NATO ones, is what we are talking about, repeatedly mentioning the growing involvement of NATO countries in this conflict. Here it is not so much important, it is important from whose hands this bullet was fired. That’s what’s important,” he replied.

The Kremlin considers what happened in the Bryansk region a terrorist attack, Peskov added.

On March 2, the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, announced the penetration of a group of Ukrainian saboteurs into the territory of the region. According to him, they opened fire on the car. As a result of the incident, two people died, a ten-year-old boy received a gunshot wound. SC later. awarded his departmental medal “Valour and Courage”.

Later, the FSB reported that a group of Ukrainian saboteurs was “squeezed out” into the territory of Ukraine, where they were subjected to a massive artillery strike. In the evening of the same day, the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein said that a car of the National Guard had blown up on a mine near the village of Sushany, three security officials received shrapnel wounds.

The Russian Volunteer Corps took responsibility for what happened (participates in hostilities against Russian troops on the side of Ukraine). According to one of its leaders, the actions of the group of saboteurs were coordinated with the Ukrainian authorities. Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, called this information a “classic provocation.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin named occurred by the terrorist attack. The head of state stressed that the fire was opened on a car with children, the saboteurs saw this and started shooting anyway. March 3 RF IC aroused criminal cases under articles on terrorist act, encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer and destruction of property.