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Economic Times | 01 Jun, 2023 | 07:08AM IST
Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Massive shelling, drone strikes injure 4 in Russia's Belgorod
Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Russia's war in Ukraine reverberated dramatically back onto its own territory on Wednesday, with a "massive" shelling in Belgorod injuring four people and preliminary information indicating a drone crashed and ignited a fire at an oil refinery farther south, CNN reported.
According to the governor of Shebekino, a settlement in the border district of Belgorod, eight apartment buildings, four homes, a school and two administrative buildings were damaged during the shelling, as the oblast becomes a hotbed of wandering violence.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia's Belgorod region, said there was more shelling of a border area later Wednesday, which he blamed on Ukrainian forces.
"The situation in Shebekino is not getting better. There is shelling on Shebekino, there is a fire at one of the industrial enterprises," Gladkov said in a live broadcast, as per CNN.
A day before (Tuesday), Gladkov said one person was killed and two were injured in an attack on a temporary accommodation centre.
In the early hours of Wednesday, a drone crashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar area, east of the occupied territory of Crimea, sparking a fire, according to local officials. The fire was quickly extinguished.
The incidents occurred just one day after Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on Moscow. The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed in a statement that all eight aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles launched from the Russian capital were destroyed.
According to the governor of Shebekino, a settlement in the border district of Belgorod, eight apartment buildings, four homes, a school and two administrative buildings were damaged during the shelling, as the oblast becomes a hotbed of wandering violence.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia's Belgorod region, said there was more shelling of a border area later Wednesday, which he blamed on Ukrainian forces.
"The situation in Shebekino is not getting better. There is shelling on Shebekino, there is a fire at one of the industrial enterprises," Gladkov said in a live broadcast, as per CNN.
A day before (Tuesday), Gladkov said one person was killed and two were injured in an attack on a temporary accommodation centre.
In the early hours of Wednesday, a drone crashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar area, east of the occupied territory of Crimea, sparking a fire, according to local officials. The fire was quickly extinguished.
The incidents occurred just one day after Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on Moscow. The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed in a statement that all eight aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles launched from the Russian capital were destroyed.
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Massive shelling, drone strikes injure 4 in Russia's Belgorod
Russia's war in Ukraine reverberated dramatically back onto its own territory on Wednesday, with a "massive" shelling in Belgorod injuring four people and preliminary information indicating a drone crashed and ignited a fire at an oil refinery farther south, CNN reported.
