Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Belgorod and Kharkiv Bombings

2023-12-31 12:28:24

Russia bombed the city of Kharkiv, in northwest Ukraine, in retaliation for the Ukrainian attack this Saturday once morest the Russian city of Belgorod, which left at least 24 dead and more than a hundred injured.

“In response to this terrorist act, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked decision-making centers and military facilities in the city of Kharkiv,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement published on its website. Telegram channel.

The Russian military command indicated that the “Kharkiv Palace” hotel complex was hit, where “representatives of military intelligence and the armed forces of Ukraine who directly participated in the planning and execution of the terrorist attack once morest Belgorod” were “liquidated.”

“There were up to 200 foreign mercenaries there that they planned to use to launch terrorist incursions into Russian territory bordering Ukraine,” the statement added.

Until now, the number of deaths and injuries left by this new attack in Ukraine is unknown.

Devastation in Belgorod following Ukrainian attack

The governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported this Saturday that enemy artillery had fired on the city center, where some 330,000 people live.

For this reason, he recommended that the city’s population take shelter in the shelters and underground facilities provided for this purpose.

Among the buildings affected are the regional government headquarters and university buildings, as well as businesses and homes, according to the official RIA Nóvosti agency.

By order of President Vladimir Putin, a brigade from the Ministry of Health headed by the head of the portfolio traveled to the region.

“This crime will not go unpunished. The Kiev regime, by committing this crime, is trying to divert attention from the defeat at the front and also provoke us to commit similar acts,” the Russian Defense Ministry had warned following the attack.

UN Security Council meets over attacks between Russia and Ukraine

With the attack on Belgorod, the Ukrainian army would have responded to the massive bombings carried out the previous day by Russian forces once morest kyiv and other cities in Ukraine, in what they classified as “the largest attack of the entire war.”

The massive bombings in Ukraine, which left at least 39 dead and 160 injured, together with the attack on Belgorod, prompted two emergency meetings in 24 hours of Security Council of the HIMthe first called by kyiv and the second, by Moscow.

At yesterday’s meeting, on behalf of the UN, Deputy Secretary of the Departments of Political Affairs and Peace, Khaled Kiari, condemned “all attacks on cities, towns and villages in Ukraine and the Russian Federation,” and warned of “ dangers of further escalation and spread of this war.”

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