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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says it has intercepted a document related to the bus incident in Russia’s Bryansk region that contradicts the Russian version of events alleging a Ukrainian drone strike. According to the SBU, the document was obtained during counterintelligence operations.
The published document is a report from the monitoring center of the Bryansk Region State Public Institution “Safe Region,” signed by the center’s chief engineer, S. V. Klimenkova.
The report is titled “Bryansk Region, A-240 Highway, Incident Involving a Bus Traveling on the Rechytsa (Republic of Belarus) – Gelendzhik (Russia) Route”. It states that no drones were detected in the area’s airspace at the time the bus was struck.
The report states:
“At 10:00:58, the Unified Emergency Response Center dashboard system received a report via the 112 emergency system: according to the caller, a UAV struck a bus, there are casualties, on the A-240 highway from Rudnya toward Unecha. The caller was a serviceman of the Russian Defense Ministry.
At the time the information was received by the Unified Emergency Response Center, no UAV flights had been recorded in the Pochep district (a UAV flight had been recorded in the Sevsk district at 9:40).
The duty officer of the radar battalion (Suponyevo) did not confirm any detections at the location of the incident. This information was received at 10:40 from attached air defense representative Senior Lieutenant I. Yu. Grigoryev and confirmed at 11:33 by Deputy Director A. A. Romankov of the Department of Regional Security.
The duty officer of the 32nd Division also did not confirm any UAV flights in the area during the incident. This information was received at 11:04 from attached air defense representative Senior Lieutenant I. Yu. Grigoryev. According to information provided by I. V. Semyonov, representative of the 32nd Division, and received at 11:27 by Deputy Director A. A. Romankov of the Department of Regional Security, no enemy strike assets were detected at the location of the incident.
The information about the incident was confirmed by an attached representative of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Bryansk Region Directorate, Senior Police Lieutenant E. E. Shkapo (information provided by duty officer Major of Police A. E. Chevychalov of the Pochep intermunicipal Interior Ministry department at 10:27).”
According to the SBU, the document provides grounds to believe that the strike on the bus was a special operation conducted by Russian security services.
Earlier today, Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated that the drone that struck the bus was Ukrainian and instructed officials to establish the truth. Ukraine denies any involvement in the attack and says it was a Russian provocation.