Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled an emergency meeting of the Security Council after a Kiev-aligned group reportedly took at least six people hostage in the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, State Duma member Andrey Gurulev said on Thursday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the president is being briefed on the events unfolding "in connection with an attack by Ukrainian militants," by the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, and the head of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov. Peskov called the incident a terrorist attack, saying that measures are being taken "to destroy" the perpetrators.
Local media reported that citizens were dead and wounded after a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group penetrated the Klimovsky district in the Russian region.
