MOSCOW — Strikes on the Russian area of Belgorod that borders Ukraine killed one individual and injured a number of others on Sunday, the regional governor mentioned, two days after assaults by Moscow battered Ukraine’s vitality grid.
Air protection methods had been working over the area earlier Sunday, with strikes focusing on the regional capital and a surrounding district, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned on social media.
Gladkov mentioned “one person died and one was injured” within the Belgorod district the place a poultry farm was broken.
He posted photographs of a yellow constructing on the farm partially destroyed, with charred rubble scattered on the bottom.
Overall eight individuals had been injured in Sunday’s strikes. Seven of them are in hospital, one in intensive care, Gladkov mentioned.
He mentioned greater than a dozen residential buildings and several other automobiles had been broken throughout the area’s important metropolis Belgorod.
The area has been hit by shelling a number of occasions since President Vladimir Putin despatched troops to Ukraine on February 24.
The governor has introduced the development of fortifications close to the border, with out specifying their size or precise location, and the formation of self-defense models. — Agence France-Presse
