Zelenskiy adviser: reports of Bryansk attack are 'deliberate provocation' by Russia

A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that reports of a sabotage attack by Ukrainian forces in Russia's Bryansk region are a "deliberate provocation".

"The story about (a) Ukrainian sabotage group in RF is a classic deliberate provocation," Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.

"RF wants to scare its people to justify the attack on another country & the growing poverty after the year of war."