Ukraine’s SBU calls attack on bus carrying Belarusian children’s soccer team in Russia’s Bryansk Region ‘a Russian intelligence operation’

Source: SBU

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it had intercepted a Russian document confirming that Ukrainian forces played no role in the attack on a bus carrying children in the Bryansk region.

The document, according to Ukrainian intelligence, is an information report from the monitoring center of the state-owned institution “Bezopasny Region” (“Safe Region”).

The document states that at the time of the bus attack, no Ukrainian drones were present in the airspace over Bryansk’s Pochepsky district. Neither the duty officer of the radar battalion in the settlement of Suponevo nor the duty officer of the 32nd Division confirmed the presence of Ukrainian drones. The report is signed by S. V. Klimenkova, chief engineer of the monitoring center.

The SBU said it had grounds to believe the attack on the bus carrying Belarusian citizens in Bryansk Region of the Russian Federation was a special operation by Russian intelligence services.

Acting Bryansk Region Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said on June 17 that Ukrainian drones had struck a bus carrying a children’s soccer team from Belarus. The bus was traveling from Gomel to Gelendzhik. One adult accompanying the group was killed in the strike, and seven others were injured, including five children. Russian authorities have opened a criminal case on terrorism charges.

Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces had not used drones to carry out strikes in the Bryansk region “during the specified period” and called Russia’s accusations a provocation.

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