At least two people died this Saturday in the attack carried out by the Ukrainian army against the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, as reported today by the governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. "Unfortunately, two people have died, a man and a woman," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
The man died when the truck he was driving was hit by a projectile, after which it crashed into a bus, whose passengers were not injured. In the case of the second fatality, a woman died when she was preparing to feed a dog in a garage, while the son who accompanied her is in serious condition.
Gladkov also estimated that eight Czech-made Vampire missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft defenses before reaching the regional capital.
The authorities of Belgorod, the Russian region hardest hit since the start of the war more than two years ago, had reported the day before three dead and twenty wounded in enemy artillery bombardments.
To this we must add the Ukrainian border incursions in recent days, carried out by Russian volunteers fighting in the ranks of the Ukrainian Army, who had, according to Moscow, the help of regular troops. These attacks forced the provisional suspension of voting in some polling stations within the framework of the presidential elections.
Precisely, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Friday of trying to torpedo the elections in which he is seeking re-election for a fifth term. "In order to torpedo the elections, to frighten the people, in several border regions with Ukraine the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev planned and intends to carry out demonstrative military actions. These enemy attacks cannot and will not go unpunished," Putin said as he presided over videoconference a meeting of the Russian Security Council.
Ukraine bombed Belgorod after, for its part, Russia attacked a residential area of the Ukrainian city of Odessa the day before, leaving 20 dead and fifty wounded.
