A shell fired from Ukrainian territory on Monday destroyed a structure at a Russian border crossing without causing any casualties, Russian security services accused, amid fighting between Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east. “On February 21, at 09:50 (06:50 GMT), a shell of an unidentified type fired from the territory of Ukraine completely destroyed the point of border guards in the Rostov region, at a distance of about 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border,” the FSB said, quoted by Russian news agencies.
«There were no casualties, deminers are working on the site“, added the FSB, which also has the service of border guards in charge in Russia. A video attributed to the FSB and published by the state agency Ria Novosti shows a small gutted building in the middle of a wooded plain, rubble strewn across the ground.
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A spokesman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, denied any artillery fire on a Russian border post in the Rostov sector and referred to an act of Russian disinformation. “We cannot prevent them from producing this false information (…) but we insist that we do not shoot at any civilian infrastructure or at the Rostov regionin Russia, Pavlo Kovalchuk told AFP, adding that he “there is no artillery fire on the occupying forces» Russians.