The SBU confiscated from the media recordings of a shootout between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and special forces in the Donbass
Ukrainian journalists accidentally filmed a clash between soldiers of the 35th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and special forces of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the area of the planned disengagement of forces and equipment in the Petrovskoye village area.
Colonel Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, announced this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In order to prevent leakage of information, counterintelligence officers of the SBU promptly arrived at the scene of the incident and confiscated all available media from the journalists who were at the scene, including those on which ready-made reports were stored. “In connection with this, over the past XNUMX hours, the Ukrainian media have not been able to release a single video report about the situation at the disengagement site near the village of Petrovskoye,” he noted.
Earlier, the DPR defense department reported that the exchange of fire was allegedly connected with the refusal of radical fighters of the 35th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to carry out the command’s order to withdraw from their positions.
“Negotiations between the command of the Vostok operational-tactical group and Ukrainian nationalists did not produce a positive result. The command of the Ukrainian armed formations used units of the 3rd separate special forces regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to force the nationalists to leave their positions. At 9:50, not far from the designated disengagement area, a clash occurred between Ukrainian special forces and nationalists from the 35th Marine Brigade. Small arms were used, the launch of an anti-tank guided missile was noted,” the emergency message said. statement People's Militia of the DPR.
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