Russian authorities on March 2 claimed they were fending off a “terrorist attack” in the country’s western Bryansk region, which shares a border with Ukraine’s northern regions of Sumy and Chernihiv.
“Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated a border district of the Bryansk region on Thursday morning,” Russia’s TASS news agency reported, adding that at least one person was killed while others were briefly taken hostage.
In a statement carried by the Russian media, Russia’s Federal Security Service claimed that operations were under way to “eliminate the border infiltrators.” 
Officials in Kyiv, for their part, accused Russia of staging what they called a false “provocation.”…