Ukraine launches strike against Russian border town with missiles and drones
A shelling assault on a Russian border city has killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100, according to reports.
Kremlin officials accused Kyiv of carrying out the attack the day after an 18-hour aerial Russian barrage across Ukraine killed at least 39 civilians. In response, the Russians shared images of Belgorod on its social media channels showing cars on fire and plumes of black smoke rising among damaged buildings as air raid sirens sounded. One missile is said to have hit an ice rink in the centre of the city.
Cities across western Russia have come under regular attack from drones since May, with Russian officials blaming Kyiv. Speaking to Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti Saturday, Russian diplomat Andrei Ordash said: "We will not give any explanations until we are presented with concrete evidence because these accusations are unsubstantiated."
Moscow reported shooting down 32 Ukrainian drones over the country's Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol and Kursk regions. Cross-border shelling is also said to have killed two people in Russia, including a nine-year-old boy.
Russian drone strikes against Ukraine continued on Saturday, with the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reporting that 10 Shahed drones had been shot down across the Kherson, Khmelnytskyi and Mykolaiv regions. On Friday, Moscow's forces launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones across Ukraine, an onslaught described by one air force official as the biggest aerial barrage of the war.
Baby boy has spent his life in hospital as doctors are 'scared' to discharge him
Emergency services assisting the injured after the attack (Russian Emergencies Ministry/AFP)As well as the 39 deaths, at least 160 people were wounded and an unknown number were buried under rubble in the assault, which damaged a maternity hospital, apartment blocks and schools. Western officials and analysts recently warned Russia had limited its cruise missile strikes for months in an apparent effort to build up stockpiles for massive strikes during the winter, hoping to break the Ukrainians' spirit.
Fighting along the front line is largely bogged down by winter weather after Ukraine's summer counter-offensive failed to make a significant breakthrough along the 620-mile line of contact. Russia's aerial attacks have also sparked concern for Ukraine's neighbours. Poland's defence forces said on Friday an unknown object had entered the country's air space before vanishing from radars, and that all indications pointed to it being a Russian missile.
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