Ukrainian shelling targeted Russia’s Belgorod region on Sunday, wounding three people, local authorities said.
“Three members of the same family suffered wounds in the shelling in Belgorod. Two men with shrapnel wounds were taken to the hospital and a woman received outpatient treatment,” Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
Belgorod borders Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, where Ukrainian forces made significant territorial gains in a counteroffensive last month. Attacks have been reported inside Belgorod throughout the war, but they have intensified in recent weeks.
On Saturday, two gunmen opened fire at a military base in Belgorod, killing 11 Russian soldiers. The Russian Defense Ministry said the incident was a terrorist attack and that the perpetrators were from a former Soviet state, but didn’t specify which one. The shooters fired on Russian volunteer soldiers during target practice and were killed by returning fire.
Also on Saturday, Gladkov said a fire was extinguished at an oil depot in Belgorod that broke out due to Ukrainian shelling. On Friday, Gladkov reported an apartment building was damaged by Ukrainian shelling, and a day earlier, he said Ukrainian strikes targeted an ammunition depot in the region.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched large-scale missile strikes across Ukraine on power infrastructure in response to the truck bombing of the Crimean Bridge. He said Friday that there was no need to keep up the attacks, but previously warned of a harsher response to further Ukrainian “terrorist attacks” on Russian territory.
Lots and lots of perfectly valid military targets there, The train station with thousands of new draftees passing through it for instance.
Omg.
Red lines come and go. But pushing Russia with these attacks is a NO GO.
Soon they will learn.
That attacking an other country can be a bad idea?
One of the kamikaze drones that hit Kyev a few hours later was marked with the inscription “For Belgorod”.
Not unlikely, … and in the larger sense that is exactly what these Ukro-nazis are subjecting their credulous nation to.
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Of course. Ukraine has been buying Iranian drones and will definitely help Russia destroy the very cities Ukrainians are protecting.
Russia is protecting Kiev and Laviv? I must have missed that.
As usual, the Kremlin will call this a terror attack. Lol.
I wonder if @sambor71 disliked my comment because it came from me cause there is nothing false about it. Russia has consistently called Ukraine attacks on Russia as terrorism even though Ukraine Attack’s collateral damage in Russia have been significantly lesser than those of Russia’s in Ukraine.
I dislike comments that are inane.
Propaganda permeates all wars. Surprised?
What surprises me is how completely Ukraine’s propaganda has permeated the US domestic political system.
It seems that money spent in the right places in DC can buy anything.
It is time to flatten the Ukrainian fascists and roll them back to extinction.
My do gis smarter than your President Biden!
Well, that happens in wars, doesn’t it? Seems like Putin is trying to micromanage the war, just as LBJ did in Vietnam. Those with big egos do like to have complete control over everything, don’t they?
The whole world seems to be going crazy at the same time and leaders are sounding like blithering inmates milling around in the disturbed ward. Helter Skelter is happening right now, although both whites and blacks and browns are killing each other in an evil free for all, unlike Manson’s scenario. Protect yourself and your interests is the best you can do in these days before the destruction comes your way.
Crossing over into Russia proper is escalation.
Is escalation in Ukraine’s interest? Never mind some abstract “justice” of killing the other guy, does this serve interests? Whose ox is gored here.
I suspect mindless own-goals here. Ukraine needs to limit this war, not pull it down on top of itself while NATO stands back and watches.