At least 24 people were killed in yesterday's Ukrainian missile attacks on the Russian city of Belgorod. The governor of the region of the same name, Vyacheslav Gladkov, made this known on Telegram, specifying that two other people died, including a child. Overall, 108 people were injured.
While Ukraine continues to dig under the rubble left on Friday by one of the most ferocious Russian bombings since the beginning of the invasion, the war violently spills over into Russia: the attack on Belgorod, which Moscow attributes to "Kiev terrorists", appears to be the bloodiest episode on Russian territory in two years of conflict.
“This attack will not go unpunished,” thundered the Russian Defense Ministry, according to which anti-aircraft fire managed to intercept two missiles and “most” of the rockets launched against the city near the Ukrainian border: otherwise, it underlined, the consequences they would have been even worse.
And while President Vladimir Putin is "informed" of the situation, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed the finger at "EU countries who continue to supply weapons" to Ukraine and against "Great Britain which, in coordination with the United States, incites the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist actions, realizing that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed." Moscow then requested and obtained the convening of a UN Security Council meeting on the incident.
(Unioneonline/D)
