US Denies Belgorod Incursion Into Russia
The US has denied an incursion into Russia - which Moscow says ended in the defeat of armed insurgents who entered from Ukraine.
Parts of the border region of Belgorod came under attack on Monday, in one of the largest cross-border raids since Russia invaded its neighbour last year.
CNN reported that Russia had released pictures of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees.
The US insisted it did not "encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia".
A state department spokesman acknowledged reports "circulating on social media and elsewhere" that US-supplied weapons had been used, but said his country was "skeptical at this time of the veracity of these reports".
In a news briefing on Tuesday, Matthew Miller added: "It is up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct this war."
Some Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested that the images of destroyed US vehicles released by Russia could have been staged.
Villages in Belgorod near the border were evacuated after coming under fire. Russia says 70 attackers were killed, and has insisted the fighters were Ukrainian.
But Kyiv denies involvement - and two Russian paramilitary groups opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin say they were behind the incursion.
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