Russia announced this Saturday that it requested a meeting of the UN Security Council after the attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, which killed at least 14 people, including two children, and which it blames on Ukraine.
“We have requested a meeting of the Security Council in Belgorod at 15:00 New York time”, that is, at 20:00 GMT (same time in Lisbon), wrote Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitri Polianski, on the Telegrama social network.
An attack attributed by Moscow to the Ukrainian army this Saturday left 14 dead and 108 injured in that city near the border, according to a report from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
“According to the latest information, 12 adults and two children died in Belgorod. In addition, 108 people, including 15 children, were injured,” he wrote on the Telegram social network.
The Russian Ministry of Defense assured, on the same social network, that the deadly attack on Belgorod will not go “unpunished”, blaming the Ukrainian army: “This attack will not go unpunished,” the Russian ministry stated on Telegram, indicating that it managed to intercept two missiles and “most” rockets fired at the city.
Previously, the local governors of the Russian regions of Belgorod and Bryansk had indicated, on the same social network, four dead, including three children, and an undetermined number of injured.
The Ukrainian army attacks come a day after massive Russian attacks in several Ukrainian cities, including the capital, killed at least 39 people and injured more than 160, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today, in the social networks, after an initial one. estimate of thirty deaths.
Source: TSF
