The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, along the Ukrainian border, on Thursday accused Ukrainian forces of destroying an ammunition depot following an attack on a Russian village.
“After an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an ammunition depot exploded in a village in the Belgorod region,” Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a message on the Telegram social network.
The same source added that, according to “preliminary data”, there were “no deaths or injuries.” Russian officials accused Ukraine of bombing a residential building in Belgorod, a large city that is rarely attacked and located on the border with Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Belgorod. Air defense was activated. There is destruction in a residential building,” Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
According to the governor, there were no deaths and the damage is not “critical” to the building. An unexploded part of a shell also landed on a city high school sports field.
Images shared on social media showed the top floor of this fifteen-story residential building destroyed, while a video shows the impact and a cloud of black smoke.
Vyacheslav Gladkov also accused kyiv of having fired on the Russian town of Krasnoye, located on the border with Ukraine.
“There is destruction on the ground of a school,” he said, also posting a photo of a shrapnel crater.
In Russia’s Kursk region, another area bordering Ukraine, two villages were left without electricity today after Ukrainian shelling damaged a power plant, according to a post by Governor Roman Starovoit on Telegram.
On Tuesday, Gladkov reported that 2,000 residents were left without power following a Ukrainian attack on a power plant in the city of Chebekino, also in the Belgorod region.
On the other hand, on Monday, Russian authorities announced that a 74-year-old woman was killed and other people were injured in another bomb attack in this town.
Russia reported last week a “significant increase” in Ukrainian attacks on Russian territories along the border.
According to Moscow, these attacks hit residential buildings, power plants, government buildings and border posts.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.5 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the UN, which places this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the generality of the international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia. political and economic sanctions.
Source: TSF
