Ukrainian official on Belgorod incident: they are Russians, it is their country, they have right to be ther 

He said this in a comment to CNN.

“They are Russians, it is their country and they have the right to be there. There are some Russians who are on the side of the light and who went to deal with the darkness that exists in Russia now,” Danilov said. 

Danilov also emphasized that Kyiv is not involved in the work of the Legion in the region, it is an internal conflict in Russia, so it is the Russian government that should comment on it.

“There are events happening there that are related to a sector that, in our opinion, should be commented on either by the supreme commander-in-chief, i.e. Putin, or by the Defense minister or someone else. They are citizens of the Russian Federation. If it was Russian guys who crossed the border, this is a question for the FSB, they have to protect this border, the military has to protect it. I emphasize once again, this is a question for the Russians who are there today in the Belgorod region,” Ukraine's top national security official said. 

• A representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Andriy Yusov, noted that the events in the Belgorod region are an “internal conflict of the Russian Federation” and the Russians' struggle against Putin's internal occupation.