MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Ukrainian bombing wounded three people in the Russian town of Belgorod on Monday evening and Russia’s air defenses shot down 10 missiles, Russian authorities said.
Belgorod has been the target of repeated attacks by Ukraine in recent weeks. Twenty-five civilians were killed there at the end of December in a missile and drone attack.
“The city of Belgorod was bombed again last night and people were injured,” Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram messaging.
“There are now three people in intensive care, all have been operated on. Doctors judge that they are in a stable and serious condition,” he added, specifying that the windows of a residential building had exploded and that several cars had been damaged.
Ukraine has not commented on this bombing.
The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 10 missiles fired from Czech-designed RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launchers. Since the start of the war triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has reportedly received several RM-70s from the Czech Republic.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said he had asked other Russian regions for help in accommodating children evacuated from Belgorod. He added that, if necessary, teachers would also be evacuated.
(Editor from Moscow, French version Bertrand Boucey, edited by Zhifan Liu)
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