“An unknown device exploded in Belgorod. According to the first information, a ‘drone’ crashed on the road. Two people were injured”said the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, quoted by the French agency AFP.
Gladkov posted on the Telegram social network a photo of an alleged “drone” fragment.
Belgorod mayor Valentin Demidov said the explosion happened near a gas station in the city of more than half a million, the capital of the region of the same name.
The incident came just hours after the Russian military announced it had repelled a large-scale border attack by dozens of Ukrainian fighters backed by tanks.
Russian authorities also said heavy bombings on Thursday targeted the town of Shebekino, population 40,000, in the same region, close to the border with Ukraine.
According to an official report, In the Belgorod region, 13 people were injured during the day.
Authorities have begun transferring civilians to other locations in response to the situation, which is deteriorating daily in the region, which AFP says is already the target of multiple attacks and raids.
Moscow’s statement on the alleged Ukrainian offensive along the border was released hours after two armed groups announced an attack on two towns in Belgorod.
This is the Russian Volunteer Corps and Legion of Freedom for Russia, allegedly formed by Russians seeking to overthrow the regime of President Vladimir Putin.
The two groups have been fighting Russian troops alongside the Ukrainian army for months invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
At the end of May, they claimed an attack in the Belgorod region from Ukraine.
O The government of Kiev says it has nothing to do with the actions of these groups on Russian territorybut tolerates its operations on Ukrainian soil.
The information released by both sides about the course of the war cannot be directly verified by independent sources.
Source: DN
