BELGOROD, Russia — As polling stations opened across Russia on Friday for a three-day presidential election that Vladimir Putin is certain to win, a volley of Ukrainian missiles crashed into the western city of Belgorod, damaging apartment buildings and injuring at least two people as thousands of residents scrambled, yet again, for shelter. For most … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A mother and her 6-year-old child, cut down while ice-skating on the city’s central square. A promising engineering student who had planned to marry his girlfriend this year, hit while waiting for the bus. A young couple and their baby, all killed as the parents pushed their … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a fresh drone assault on Ukraine on Saturday night, after promising that strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod earlier in the day “would not go unpunished”. The Ukrainian Air Force said Sunday that it had shot down 21 of 49 drones launched by Russian forces overnight. Twenty-eight people … Read more
Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 21 people, including three children, local officials reported. A further 110 people were wounded in the strike, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, making it one of the deadliest attacks on Russian soil since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine 22 months … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A combined rocket and missile attack on Belgorod, a city in Russia near the Ukrainian border, has killed at least 18 people and injured more than 100, Russian authorities said Saturday, blaming the assault on Ukraine’s military and vowing to retaliate for the deaths. “This crime will … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — Anti-Russian fighters attacked at the very least 10 villages in Russia’s Belgorod area on Monday with heavy shelling, its governor mentioned, within the newest signal of escalating cross-border preventing, as Moscow claimed to dam the start of a large-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive. A spokesman for the Russian Protection Ministry, … Read more
China intends to raise its cooperation with Russia “to a better degree,” Chinese language chief Xi Jinping mentioned Wednesday throughout a gathering with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing, the place based on state broadcaster CCTV the 2 international locations agreed to strengthen their financial ties. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Chinese language officers … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — Russian officers stated Tuesday {that a} counterterrorism operation has expelled saboteurs from the Belgorod area, which borders Ukraine, after militias made up of Russians combating on Ukraine’s aspect within the warfare mounted an assault on a border publish and focused a constructing of the Federal Safety Service, or … Read more