Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said Kyiv had nothing to do with the armed operation in Russia’s Belgorod region that took place on Monday.
Earlier, the Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Gladkov, claimed that a “sabotage group” of the Ukrainian army entered Russian territory in the Graivoron region, on the border of the Russian Federation. ‘Ukraine.
“Ukraine is following the events in the Belgorod region of Russia with interest and studying the situation, but has no direct connection with it,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter. “As you know, tanks are sold in any Russian military store, and underground partisan detachments are always made up of Russian citizens.”
In a written statement to Reuters, Podoliak recalled that the Ukrainian military operates only on Ukrainian territory, and expressed agreement with the statement of the Ukrainian military intelligence service quoted by Ukrainian media, which had previously linked ” opposition Russian citizens” belonging to two groups with the armed operation in the Belgorod region.
Previously, Ukrainian channel Hromadske TV brought in a representative of Ukrainian military intelligence, Andrei Yusov, who said that Russia’s Freedom Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps (RCC) were responsible for the incident.
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