MOSCOW. June 1 (Interfax) - Attempts by Ukrainian forces reinforced by tanks to break through the border in Russia's Belgorod region have been repelled, the Russian military said.
"This morning, the Russian Armed Forces, acting together with units of the Border Forces and other formations of the Russian Federal Security Service, thwarted yet another attempt of the Kiev regime to perpetrate a terror attack on the civilian population in Shebekino, Belgorod region," it said.
"Up to two motorized infantry companies, reinforced by tanks, tried to penetrate the territory of the Russian Federation near the town of Novaya Tavolzhanka and the Shebekino international border checkpoint," the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
"The selfless actions of Russian servicemen stopped three attacks by Ukrainian terrorist formations," it said.
No violations of the state border were allowed to happen, the ministry said.