MOSCOW, 15 April 2022, (TON): Russian officials said “Ukrainian helicopters had hit residential buildings and injured seven people in the Bryansk region, the latest of a series of cross-border attacks that Moscow has said may trigger a retaliatory attack on Kyiv.”

The governor of the Belgorod region said a village there was also attacked, but that no one was injured.

Ukraine’s defense ministry, which has declined to comment on several border incidents including a strike on a fuel depot in the city of Belgorod earlier this month, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on reports of cross-border attacks.

Russia’s investigative committed said in a statement “on April 14, 2022, using two combat helicopters equipped with heavy offensive weapons, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine illegally entered the airspace of the Russian Federation.”

It said “moving at low altitude, they carried out at least six air strikes on residential buildings in the village of Klimovo.”

The statement said “six buildings were damaged and seven people were injured.”