At least four civilians have been killed after a heavy weapons attack carried out at dawn today in a village in Russia’s Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine. Initially, authorities reported two fatalities, but later confirmed the existence of two more deaths.
Several Ukrainian missiles hit the village of Suzemka, about ten kilometers from the border with Ukraine, Alexander Bogomaz said.
Local residents of the village of Suzemka report attacks by the Ukrainian army on the train station, gas station and a residential house. pic.twitter.com/wVJ57da70g
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“Unfortunately, two civilians died as a result of the attack by Ukrainian nationalists,” said the governor of Bryansk Oblast.
“One residential building was completely destroyed and two other houses were partially destroyed,” Bogomaz added on the Telegram platform.
Later, the governor confirmed the existence of two more fatalities.
“Two more villagers were rescued from the rubble. Unfortunately, they also died,” regional governor Alexandr Bogomaz said on Telegram.
In total, “four civilians were killed in the attack on the city of Suzemka,” he added.
Two other people had to be hospitalized with injuries and a state of emergency was declared in the small town.
Alexandr Bogomaz, who was recently decorated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused Ukrainian nationalists of being responsible for the attack.
All Russian regions bordering Ukraine have strengthened their borders with the neighboring country, but that has not stopped them from launching sporadic attacks, local authorities said.
On Saturday, a drone strike set fire to a fuel depot in the port of Sevastopol, the base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet on the annexed Crimea peninsula.
“According to preliminary data, the fire was caused by the impact of a ‘drone’,” Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said in a statement issued by the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti and quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE.
The fire spread over an area of almost a thousand square meters and has now been extinguished by the emergency services.
The attack damaged fuel in four tanks but did not affect fuel supplies to the city, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, like the rest of the Black Sea peninsula.
Mikhail Razvozhaev added that the attack did not cause any injuries or pose any threat to civilian infrastructure in the area.
In recent months, Russian authorities have reported numerous Ukrainian attacks on the peninsula, mostly with attack drones.
This week, Russia’s Federal Security Service said it had aborted a bombing attack on the naval hospital in Simferopol, the peninsula’s capital.
Prior to the anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive, Crimean leader Sergey Axyonov ordered the construction of a fortified line of defense between the peninsula and the rest of Ukraine.
The alleged attack on Crimea came a day after the largest Russian offensive against Ukraine in the past two months, in which Russian bombings hit several cities and killed more than two dozen people.
In addition to Kiev, there were reports of explosions in Uman, Dnipro, Kremenchuk and Poltava in central Ukraine and in Mykolaiv in the south.
Source: DN
