CHASIV YAR, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces hung on to positions in the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut on Thursday, while Moscow said its security forces had battled Ukrainian saboteurs who had taken hostages in a cross-border raid.
Russia’s FSB security force said the situation was now “under control” in Bryansk Province just north of the Ukrainian border. Earlier Moscow had said armed Ukrainians had crossed the frontier, fired on a car killing one person and wounding a child, and held hostages in a shop.
In a brief television address, President Vladimir Putin said the attackers had fired deliberately on the car, knowing it held civilians….