Ukraine Is Now Targeting Civilian Areas In Russia, Belgorod Hit With Dozens Of Rockets Leaving Over 14 Dead Including 2 Children

At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed and 108 injured following a Ukrainian attack on the center of the Russian provincial capital of Belgorod, the Russian Emergencies Ministry has said.

Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Saturday that the attack on Belgorod, about 30km (19 miles) from the border with Ukraine, had hit a residential area. In a Telegram post, he urged all residents to move to air raid shelters as sirens sounded.

Belgorod borders Ukraine’s Luhansk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, some of which were hit by Russian air raids on Ukraine on Friday, in what was one of the deadliest attacks since the war began in February 2022. The death toll has risen to 39 from those attacks.