<span style="color: #222222;">Russia's military has said that it has prevented a "diversionary reconnaissance" group from breaching the border from Ukraine.</span><br />''The Russian defence ministry claimed that Five troops were killed in the incident, which allegedly took place in Russia's southwestern Rostov region.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Ukraine rejected the reports, calling it fake news, and said, no Ukrainian forces were present in the Rostov region where the incident was alleged to have taken place.<br />''<br />''Ukraine's interior ministry's official Anton Gerashchenko told reporters that not a single one of our soldiers has crossed the border with the Russian Federation, and not a single one has been killed today.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The reported incident took place at a moment of extreme tension between the two countries. Western countries accuse Russia of planning to invade Ukraine that it had controlled until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Meanwhile, Moscow denies planning any attack but has demanded sweeping security guarantees, including a promise that Ukraine will never join NATO.</span><br />