“Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK) reported a new penetration into the territory of the Bryansk region. The formation’s telegram channel reports that RDK fighters, in addition to “carrying out combat missions”, spoke with local residents and handed them their leaflets.
On the afternoon of April 6, the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was trying to enter the region. According to him, the attempted penetration was stopped, Russian troops, together with border guards, inflicted a “defeat by fire” on the group. Bogomaz gave no further details about what happened.
“Despite the fact that the governor (of the Bryansk region, Alexander) Bogomaz has already reported that he had ‘successfully repelled the attack of the Ukrainian DRG’, we catch him again in the act of lying!” said the RDK in a statement.
The formation’s Telegram channel also posted a video showing the fighters gathering and packing their belongings, then speaking, presumably, to a local resident standing in the doorway of their home. “Tell me, what is the name of the village, where are we now? asks his voiceover. He replies that Sluchevsk. At the end of the 1.5-minute video, RDK fighters fire small arms and hand-held flamethrowers along the street.
In the Bryansk region there is the village of Sluchovsk, it is located 150 km south of Bryansk and is located near the border with Ukraine. The person in ed video said “Sluchevsk” with emphasis on “e”.
On the evening of April 6, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops, together with border guards, “suppressed an attempt to penetrate the territory of the Russian Federation into the area of the settlement by the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering more than 15 militants of Slouchaevsk, Bryansk region. According to the military department, the Ukrainian group was hit by artillery, after which, “having suffered a loss, it withdrew to the territory of Ukraine”. have not been suffered.
The Russian Volunteer Corps is a unit of Russian volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine. At the beginning of March, the RDK fighters made their first sortie in the Bryansk region, then they entered the villages of Sushany and Lyubechany. According to official figures, two local residents died as a result of the incident and a ten-year-old boy was also injured. The RDK, in turn, denied attacking civilians. As noted by Denis Kapustin*, the founder of the RDK, the first penetration into the territory of Russia was agreed with the Ukrainian authorities. However, Kiev official denied any involvement in the operation. In mid-March, Rosfinmonitoring listed Kapustin* on the list of terrorists and extremists. On April 4, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested him in absentia, accusing him of having committed a terrorist act involving the intentional death of a person.
*included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists
