Several people were killed and hundreds of homes were damaged in a Russian town after an alleged Ukrainian airstrike.
On early Sunday morning, at around 3 am, at least three people were killed in the city of Belgorod, which lies just 25 miles from the Ukrainian border, after a series of explosions.
The authorities have since alleged that hundreds of homes were damaged – several of them destroyed completely – in the airstrike.
Putin’s allies and the local government have since put the blame on Ukraine and called on the Russian president for revenge.
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov claimed that at least five homes were destroyed entirely in the blasts. An additional 39 houses and 11 apartment buildings got damaged in the airstrike.
“The sound was so strong that I jumped up, I woke up, got very scared and started screaming,” one resident said, Reuters reported.
“The missile hit residential buildings about 20 meters from my house. All the windows in our house were shattered, the doors came out of alignment.”
Following the blasts, Kremlin mouthpieces spoke out and demanded swift repercussions for the alleged Ukrainian attack on civilian targets.
“The death of civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure in Belgorod are a direct act of aggression on the part of Ukraine and require the most severe – including a military – response,” Andrei Klishas, a senior Russian lawmaker, wrote on Telegram.
While Ukraine has not yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, officials suggested the airstrike was ‘karma’ for the continuous Russian strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine.
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