Russian soldier admits Putin's forces bombed Ukrainian town

Ukraine's intelligence officials released another audio clip of an intercepted phone call in which a Russian soldier admitted that President Vladimir Putin s forces bombed their own town to put the blame on Ukrainians.

The audio clip of the call was released Friday. In the call, which lasted roughly two and a half minutes, Russian soldier told his wife that Putin's forces were responsible for the shelling of the Russian town of Klimovo on Thursday. The attack, blamed on Ukraine, was meant to provoke Ukrainians, according to the soldier.

The soldier told his wife, "These are our heroes." This is done in order to provoke Ukrainians. The Russian soldier also compared the bombing to a series of attacks on Russian apartments in 1999 in Moscow, Buynaksk and Volgodonsk. Russia later used the incident as grounds to start a second war with the region. The Russian government has carried out the attacks, according to widely speculated.

The soldier told his wife that the same thing happened in the Chechen war. The apartments were blown up in Moscow, like they were terrorists. The soldiers said the officers of Russia's Federal Security Service, which had previously been accused of torture, carried out the recent shellings on Klimovo.

The governor of Bryansk region, Aleksandr Bogomax, said Ukrainian forces damaged two buildings in the attack. Russia's Investigative Committee also claimed the attacks were made by Ukrainian military helicopters, adding that they launched a criminal case into the shellings.

Officials for the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine RNBO released a statement on April 14 in which they described Russia's claims as part of a scheme to incite anti-Ukraine hysteria in the Russian Federation. The RNBO received a warning about Russia's plans to launch a series of terrorist acts in its territory to pit Russians against Ukrainians, as well as a warning about Russians' plans to launch a series of terrorist acts in its territory.

A day earlier, the Russian region of Kursk said that Ukrainian forces attacked a border guard unit in the Korenevr district.

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine began on February 24 and is now entering its eighth week.