Unconfirmed reports from Moscow state that a group of up to 50 Ukrainians had crossed the border in the Bryansk region. The Federal Security Service said in a statement to Russian news agencies that its own forces and the army were trying to liquidate what it described as ‘an armed group of Ukrainian nationalists’ who had infiltrated. ‘Your task is to put a barrier in the way of sabotage groups, to stop attempts to illegally transport weapons and ammunition into Russia,’ he said in a speech on Tuesday