Russian military has claimed it destroyed two Ukrainian tanks straying into its territory, killing five people, in an unconfirmed incident that would be the first direct clashes with Ukrainian forces since Moscow mobilised 190,000 troops on its border.
The army’s southern military district said in a statement that a “diversionary reconnaissance group” was discovered near the border village of Mityakinskaya and claimed that Ukraine sent two infantry fighting vehicles to “evacuate them from the battlefield”.Russian forces “destroyed both Ukrainian fighting vehicles with anti-tank weapons”, it added.
“As a result of the clashes five members of the diversionary reconnaissance group who violated the border of the Russian Federation were destroyed,” the statement said, adding that no Russians were hurt in the fighting.
However, Russia did not provide any evidence to support its claims.
