MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - The Federal Security Service has reported a shootout with unknown persons who tried to cross the Russian border from Ukraine.
"On December 4, in the area controlled by the Russian Federal Security Service's border department in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, a border detail prevented an attempt of three unknown armed persons to cross the border from Ukraine into the Russian Federation," the FSB public relations center told Interfax.
The trespassers opened fire when the border guards tried to detain them.
"The fire was returned; one of the trespassers sustained lethal injuries, and the two others escaped into the Ukrainian territory," FSB said.