2023-12-31 01:32:51
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Russia accuses Ukraine of “terrorist” attack on Belgorod and threatens “punishment”
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Soldiers stand guard at the site of the attack in Belgorod
Quelle: picture alliance/dpa/TASS/Pavel Kolyadin
According to Moscow, 21 people were killed and another 110 people were injured in an attack on the Russian city of Belgorod on Saturday. Russia warns that the attack will not go unpunished.
Russia has accused Ukraine of a “terrorist attack” on civilians in the Russian city of Belgorod. “In order to increase the number of victims of the terrorist attack, they used cluster munitions,” Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said on Saturday at a UN Security Council meeting requested by Russia. Ukraine has set its sights on a sports center, an ice skating rink and a university. On Friday, at least 39 people were killed in Ukraine in one of the worst waves of Russian attacks since the start of the war.
Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking the city of Belgorod on Saturday. According to authorities, at least 21 people were killed and dozens more injured. Belgorod is around 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. It was a “deliberate, indiscriminate attack against a civilian target,” Nebensia continued. Security Council members now have “an opportunity to fulfill their duty and assess the damage done in the Russian city of Belgorod,” Nebensia continued, holding up a QR code. The code was linked to a video that Nebensia said showed the aftermath of the attack.
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According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, 15 children are among the 110 injured. Video footage, the authenticity of which could not initially be verified, showed streets littered with rubble and clouds of smoke rising from burned-out cars in the center of Belgorod. A massive explosion could be heard in dashcam footage posted on online networks.
Rescue workers evacuate an injured person after a shelling in Belgorod, about 30 kilometers from the border with Ukraine
Source: AFP/HANDOUT
According to Russian information, Wilcha guided missiles and Czech-made missiles were used in the attack. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, “most” of the missiles aimed at the city were intercepted. However, several rockets and debris hit Belgorod. A child was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in the Bryansk border region, as the local governor Alexander Bogomas announced in online services. There was initially no statement from the Ukrainian side on the allegations.
Russia had requested a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the deadly attack on Belgorod. Russian President Vladimir Putin was “informed about the attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on residential areas in Belgorod,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Tass news agency. The Russian Foreign Ministry, which has repeatedly criticized Western arms supplies to Ukraine, accused the United States and Britain of “inciting the regime in Kiev to commit terrorist acts.”
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Both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were scheduled to give New Year’s speeches on Sunday – at the end of the year in which the Ukrainian counteroffensive failed and the front line has hardly changed.
Zelensky: “Terrorist attack” on my country
Zelenskyj wrote on Saturday in online services about a “terrorist attack” on his country in view of Friday’s wave of attacks, in which 39 people have been killed and more than a hundred injured so far. “Almost 120 towns and villages are affected” across the country, Zelensky explained. “Work to eliminate the consequences of yesterday’s Russian attack is still ongoing.”
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According to the city administration, 16 people died in the attacks in the capital Kiev alone. Bodies were still being recovered from the rubble on Saturday. Mayor Vitali Klitschko declared January 1st a day of mourning.
According to Ukrainian information, schools, a maternity clinic, shopping centers and residential buildings were hit on Friday in one of the most violent waves of Russian attacks on Ukraine since the beginning of the war. The Russian army said in its daily situation report that it carried out “50 group attacks and one massive attack” between December 23 and 29. “All targets” were hit.
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According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia used 158 drones and missiles. 144 of them were destroyed. It was a “record number” of rockets, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. Apart from the first days of the war in February 2022, these were the “most massive attacks” on Ukraine to date.
According to authorities, three people were killed in the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Chernihiv regions on Saturday in Russian attacks on Ukraine. In Kharkiv in the northeast, 16 people were injured in an attack, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. According to prosecutor Oleksandr Filchakov, a foreign journalist was among the injured. According to the Home Office it is a British man.
US President Joe Biden, meanwhile, appealed to Congress to quickly approve further aid to Ukraine in the new year. “Unless Congress acts urgently in the new year, we will be unable to continue delivering the weapons and vital air defense systems Ukraine needs to protect its people,” Biden said. Congress must “act, and without further delay.”
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