At least 11 people were killed and 15 wounded in a shooting at a Russian military site in the region Belgorod The Russian Defense Ministry described the attackers as “terrorists”.
The ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that “citizens” from the former Soviet Union fired automatic weapons during a training exercise.
“While conducting shooting exercises for people who volunteered to participate in the special military operation (in Ukraine), the two terrorists opened fire with automatic weapons at the unit’s personnel,” she added.
“During the shooting, 11 people were fatally wounded. 15 others were wounded of varying severity and were taken to health facilities where they are receiving the necessary treatment,” she added.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that “the two terrorists were responded to and killed.”
And the Russian authorities announced, earlier today, that a fire broke out in an oil depot in the border city of Belgorod following an attack by Ukrainian forces.
Oil depot bombing
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said: “We were bombed once more. One of the shells hit an oil depot in the Belgorod region. I am at the scene. The Emergencies Ministry is fighting back the fire. There is no threat of proliferation. I will tell you everything.”
He also confirmed that a customs checkpoint in the border town of Chepkino was subjected to Ukrainian shelling as well.
Pictures of a fire in a fuel storage depot in the Russian city of Belgorod – Archyde.com
Ukrainian counterattack
It is noteworthy that the Ukrainian forces have launched a counter-attack since last month in the northeast and south of the country, in an attempt to regain cities that have been under Russian control for months.
But Moscow, in conjunction with this attack, announced in late September that it had annexed 4 Ukrainian regions, namely Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south, in a move that sparked international criticism and condemnation from the United Nations, which confirmed that the decision to annex was illegal and contrary to laws and charters. International.
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin “has insisted that there is no going back on this decision to annex “forever”.
