In the Russian city of Belgorod, in a region bordering Ukraine, a residential building was hit by a Ukrainian attack on Thursday.
“Ukrainian forces bombed Belgorod. Anti-aircraft guns activated. There is destruction in a residential building,” Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of this region, where the number of shootings has increased in recent weeks, said on the social network Telegram.
There are no casualties yet, Gladkov said later, after publishing photos of debris scattered across a street and a damaged car.
According to the governor of the Belgorod region, a rocket also landed on the sports complex of a school in the city, but it did not explode.
Images on social media showed the top floor of a destroyed residential building, while another video shows the impact of the rocket in a cloud of black smoke.
Gladkov also accused Kiev of shooting at the Russian city of Krasnoye, also located on the border with Ukraine.
“There is devastation on the school grounds,” he added, while also releasing a photo of a crater surrounded by shrapnel from a mortar shell.
Part of a missile shot down by an air defense fell on the sports field of a lyceum in Belgorod
This has been confirmed by the governor of the region. The photo published by local media shows the top stage of the missile, which resembles the missile of Russia’s Pantsir system. pic.twitter.com/tdR31HIemD
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Although the Belgorod region has been regularly the target of fire from Ukraine, especially since the spring, the regional capital has rarely been the target since the beginning of the conflict.
Gladkov said on Tuesday that about 2,000 residents were without electricity after a Ukrainian attack on a power plant in the city of Chebekino, also in the Belgorod region. The day before, a 74-year-old woman was killed and others injured in another attack on the city.
Russia last week reported a “significant increase” in Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions along the Ukrainian border. Moscow said the attacks hit residential and administrative buildings, power generation complexes and border crossings.
Source: DN
