Ukrainian Strikes Kill 14 In Russian Border City

Ukraine has carried out a series of deadly strikes on targets in south-west Russia over the past 24 hours, according to Russian officials

The Russian emergency ministry says 14 people including two children have been killed and dozens of others injured in the city of Belgorod

A Ukrainian security source has confirmed to the BBC that Kyiv fired 70 drones at Russian military targets – and blamed Russian air defences for fragments falling in Belgorod

The attack appears to be one of the deadliest strikes on Russia during the war so far

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of drone strikes on its territory, though Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for these

Today’s attacks follow Russian strikes on Ukraine on Friday which killed 39 people, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Cities across Ukraine were attacked, including the capital Kyiv, Lviv in the west, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia in the south, and Dnipro and Kharkiv in the east.

The governor of the Kherson region says one person died during Russian shelling of a residential building. “The information is being clarified,” Oleksandr Prokudin adds in a post on Telegram.

And in Kharkiv, civilian infrastructure has reportedly been damaged by air strikes. In his own Telegram post, Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the regional administration, accuses Russia of striking “more than six blows”.

He says some of these hit central parts of the city of Kharkiv – somewhere we reported shelling a bit earlier. BBC