Vladimir Putin is anticipated to hold a conference of his nationwide security council today over a declared Ukrainian sabotage group that has ‘taken hostages’ in Russia.
Unconfirmed reports from Moscow state that a group of up to 50 Ukrainians had crossed the border in the Bryansk region.
The Federal Security Service said in a statement to Russian news agencies that its own forces and the army were trying to liquidate what it described as ‘an armed group of Ukrainian nationalists’ who had infiltrated.
Some disinformation experts have already branded this as propaganda on Twitter, and a ‘possible false flag operation and disinformation campaign’ coming from the Kremlin.
Mykhailo Podolyak, consultant to Volodymyr Zelensky, likewise worried this was ‘classic deliberate provocation’ from the intruder.
In a declaration on Twitter, he stated: ‘Russia wishes to frighten its individuals to validate the attack on another nation and the growing hardship after the year of war.
‘The partisan movement in Russia is getting stronger and more aggressive. Fear your partisans.’
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