The attacks on Belgorod come a day after an 18-hour Russian bombing campaign killed at least 39 people in Ukraine.
According to Belgorod’s governor, the Ukrainian attacks on Saturday hit, among other things, a residential area in the city, which is around three miles from the border with Ukraine. In a Telegram message, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov asked all residents to occupy bomb shelters as anti-aircraft sirens wailed in the city.
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Russia’s crisis ministry said on Saturday afternoon that ten people had been killed, before the death toll was again revised upwards to 14 killed, including two children. 108 people are injured, among them 15 children, according to the ministry.
– This crime will not go unpunished, says Russia’s Ministry of Defense in a statement.
According to Russia, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Saturday evening about the attacks.
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Fire crews put out the flames in a car after the artillery attacks in Belgorod on Saturday. Photo: AP
Happened in the middle of the day
Previous attacks in Russian border areas have occurred at night, but this attack took place in the middle of the day. Videos on social media showed flames and burning cars in what appeared to be the city center, writes the AP news agency.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense claims the munitions used in the attack were Czech-made Vampire rockets and Olkha cluster munitions. This is written by the news agency AP, which is unable to verify the claims.
Ukrainian authorities, which rarely claim responsibility for attacks in the neighboring country, have not commented on the claims.
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Anti-aircraft missiles
But the Ukrainian news outlet RBC-Ukraine cites sources as saying Ukrainian forces attacked military targets in Belgorod in response to the widespread Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities the previous day.
Two residents of the city told Reuters they saw anti-aircraft missiles in the sky, followed by explosions in the air and even louder bangs.
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Kommersant newspaper quotes a source close to the Russian Investigative Committee who claims rockets fired from Kharkiv in Ukraine hit, among other things, an ice rink in the center of Belgorod.
Little brief
– President Vladimir Putin is informed about the Ukrainian armed forces’ attack on residential areas in Belgorod, says the Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov to the Tass news agency.
Earlier on Saturday, Russia’s Ministry of Defense stated that 32 Ukrainian rockets had been shot down over Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol and Kursk, and that two people had died and four were injured.
One man was killed and four others wounded in a separate attack on Belgorod the night before, according to Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
A child has also been killed in Ukrainian attacks in the border county of Bryansk, according to the Russian governor there.
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The Ukrainian General Staff reported that ten Iranian-made drones had been shot down over the Kherson, Khmelnytskyi and Mykolajiv regions during Saturday.
Searching the ruins
At the same time, Russian drone attacks against Ukraine continued on Saturday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that 39 people were killed in the massive Russian airstrikes on Friday. At least 160 people were injured, and an unknown number were buried in the rubble.
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Rescue workers worked through the remains of a maternity clinic, a shopping center and several blocks of apartment blocks in search of the missing.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported that ten Iranian-made drones had been shot down over the Kherson, Khmelnytskyi and Mykolajiv regions during Saturday.
122 rockets
On Friday, Russia fired 122 missiles and dozens of drones at large parts of Ukraine in what an air force official called the most massive airstrike since the war began.
Western experts say Russia has held back its cruise missile attacks recently to build up its stockpile of missiles it can use in massive attacks on infrastructure during the winter.
2023-12-30 16:19:53
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