Putin Troops Bombing Russian Town And Blaming Ukraine For It

Ukrainian intelligence says it has intercepted a call between a Russian soldier and his wife, with the man can be heard telling his wife that Russian forces blew up the town of Klimovo in Russia, Business Insider reported.

Photo Insert: Ukrainian intelligence said in a Facebook post that the call between the soldier and wife makes it "obvious that the Kremlin is indifferent not only to its military but also to civilian Russians, who also suffered from the shelling of Russian troops."

The Security Service of Ukraine released an audio clip of the call on Friday, in which a man's voice can be heard saying Putin's forces have been opening fire on a Russian town.

The man, a soldier located in Ukraine's Donetsk region, was speaking to his wife on the phone, who's back home in Russia. "These are our heroes," he told his wife. "This is done in order to provoke ... Ukrainians," he said.

The soldier said Russian forces bombed Klimovo, a city straddling the border between Russia and Ukraine.

Klimovo authorities, meanwhile, blamed Ukrainian soldiers for shelling the city, an accusation Kyiv has vehemently denied. The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine characterized the blame as "an attempt to ignite anti-Ukraine hysteria in Russia," according to Radio Free Europe, a US-funded media company.

Ukrainian intelligence said in a Facebook post that the call between the soldier and wife makes it "obvious that the Kremlin is indifferent not only to its military but also to civilian Russians, who also suffered from the shelling of Russian troops."

The Russian soldier compared the shelling to the series of bombings in Russian apartments in 1999. "The same crap was in the Chechen war," he told his wife.

"Apartments were blown up in Moscow, like ... they were terrorists." He said it was orchestrated and carried out by officers with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), which has frequently been accused of torture. The Moscow bombings killed 200 people but boosted the approval rating of then Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and justified the Russian invasion of Chechnya and destruction of Grozny, its capital.

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