Armed fighters said to be Russian citizens who oppose the Kremlin said they carried out cross-border incursions into western Russia from Ukraine using tanks on Tuesday (March 12), but Moscow said it had repelled the attacks.

Ukraine said the groups were acting independently. But the border raids, carried out days before a presidential election in Russia and just over two years after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, were widely seen as backed by Kyiv.

The Freedom of Russia Legion said it had taken full control of Tyotkino, a village on the edge of Russia's Kursk region bordering Ukraine.

Read the best of our journalism: [ Ссылка ]
Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: [ Ссылка ]
Find us on Facebook: [ Ссылка ]
Find us on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
Find us on Instagram: [ Ссылка ]

#russia #ukrainewar #putin

свернуть