Southern Russia also affected
At least 13 injured in attacks on Belgorod
May 19, 2024, 10:20 p.m
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According to authorities, the Ukrainian military is once again attacking targets in Belgorod. The artillery fire is said to have left several people injured, according to the governor of the Russian border region. But massive attacks are also taking place in other parts of Russia.
According to official reports, at least 13 people were injured in attacks by Ukrainian artillery on the southern Russian border region of Belgorod. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said three children and young people were among the injured, according to the Russian state agency Tass. Several residential buildings in the towns of Shebekino and Rzhevka were damaged by the fire from multiple rocket launchers.
The towns in the Belgorod region repeatedly come under fire from neighboring Ukraine. In order to deprive the Ukrainian units of the opportunity to carry out further attacks, the Russian military recently launched a limited offensive in the direction of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. According to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, the Russian troops want to create a buffer zone.
In addition, the Ukrainian armed forces have again massively attacked targets on Russian territory with drones. More than a hundred drones were intercepted and destroyed over Russian territory, the Russian authorities said. According to local authorities, an oil refinery was hit in Krasnodar Oblast, which lies in southern Russia on the Black Sea.
Oil refinery out of operation after attack
According to Russian information, operations at an oil refinery in southern Russia have been suspended due to a Ukrainian drone attack. “During the night, six drones fell on the area of the refinery in Sluvyansk-na-Kubani,” regional official Roman Sinyagovsky wrote on Telegram. “The plant is currently shut down. We are assessing the damage,” the Interfax news agency quoted the refinery’s safety chief, Eduard Trutnew, as saying. The refinery in the Krasnodar region, east of the Sea of Azov, is one of the largest in southern Russia.
Ukrainian intelligence circles said that the target of the attack on Sunday night by the military and the domestic secret service SBU was a military airfield. “This is the second attack by SBU drones on the Kushchevska military airfield and the Slavyansk refinery in the past three weeks,” said an insider.
Dozens of different military aircraft are stationed at the airfield. According to Russian authorities, six drones struck the site of the oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk. According to the Interfax news agency, the refinery initially stopped operations. But no fire broke out, the state agency Tass reported. The ministry had previously said that Ukraine had attacked the annexed Crimean peninsula with nine ATACMS missiles and Russian regions with at least 60 drones.