The first casualty of the war with the Russian border. What is known about the shelling of the Belgorod village
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One person died, seven were injured in the village of Solokhi in the Belorodsk region, which came under fire, follows from the messages of the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The settlements of this region were observed under shelling, but neither in Belgorod, nor in other places have been found so far, there have been no casualties among the world’s population, while in Ukraine, according to the UN, the death toll in the world has approached 3.5 thousand
Like other governors bordering Ukraine, Gladkov reports that they are connected with the invasion of Ukraine events in his own Telegram channel. “Seven wounded, one more dead was brought late at night,” the governor wrote in the morning. “Federal telegram channels write about another dead, 14-year-old boy.
The governor posted a photo with the consequences of the shelling. According to its results, there were 17 households and six cars, windows were broken in houses, post offices and shops. The houses in the village are not burning – the reeds growing outside the settlement, concentrated by Gladkov, are burning.
The village is located about 20 kilometers in a straight line from the Ukrainian border. All its inhabitants will be taken to a safe place appointed by the head of the Belgorod region.
Under wartime conditions, the BBC is unable to promptly verify official officials. The Ukrainian side has not officially commented on the shelling of the village of Solokhi.
Asked by the BBC if there would be natural rights to shell the village of Solokhi, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “this is a situation that necessitates additional security measures due to security breaches in the face of violence.”
He added about some measures that are being discussed in Russia. When asked how to shell the significance at the Russian-Ukrainian level, Peskov answered during a daily briefing: “We haven’t changed anything from yesterday. And now there is nothing to testify on the negotiation track.”
The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt on two or more persons and the dead). In a press release from the TFR saidthat the Ukrainian servicemen of the armed forces and “other Ukrainian military units”, according to the investigation, are building several aimed shots from the Grad multiple launch rocket system in the village.
Since the beginning of the war against the authorities of Ukraine, the Belgorod region has repeatedly reported the shelling of other villages, but did not declare the dead.
On April 14, in the village of Zhuravlevka, one resident received a shrapnel wound, on April 19, three people were wounded in the village of Golovchino, which came under shelling, on April 25, in Zhuravlev and the village of Nekhoteevka, there was an incidence during shelling, and on April 26 and May 5, no one subsequently because of government announcements. In total, after February 24, more than 200 residential buildings were damaged as a result of shelling in the Belgorod region.
During these and other shellings, cases of detection were also found among military personnel, but the number of cases was not specified, writes “Kommersant”. It was reported about one dead – a military priest Oleg Artemov.
On April 1, explosions and a fire at an oil depot took place in Belgorod itself. The strike on it was carried by two helicopter helicopters. The Defense Ministry blamed Ukraine for the attack. The Ukrainian authorities have not officially commented on this attack.
Another oil depot burned down in Bryansk, about 110 kilometers from Ukraine, but the authorities did not attribute this to the fighting. In other regions, there were no victims with the state invasion of Ukraine.
In Ukraine itself, according to the UN, 3,496 people died, 3,760 people were injured. These are data for May 11, they are preliminary. According to the UN, including the dead – 238 children.
The day before, the village of Kamyshevakha was subjected to a “merciless bombardment” in the Zaporozhye region, declared the head of the regional administration Alexander Starukh, the photo of the detection of attacks was eliminated. He claims that as a result of the discovery of “a dozen missiles” dozens of buildings were damaged, one person died, several were injured.
Another world resident, by mistake of the mayor of the city of Lozova, Sergei Zelensky, died the day before in the Kharkiv region during a missile attack on a warehouse. According to the Ukrainian side, it was a warehouse of agricultural products.
About another victim among the world population by the head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk region Alexander Vilkul. According to him, the strike was the result of multiple launch rocket systems at Zelenodolsk. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on these reports; the BBC cannot quickly verify them.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine approached the borders of Russia on the Kharkiv approach, and in the near future they were announced on the air the day before by the adviser to the President’s main office, Aleksey Arestovich. The Russian side did not comment on this assertion. The village of Solokhi, which came under fire, borders on the Kharkiv region.
Mary Belgorod on Thursday morning with a link to the telegram channel “War against fakes.
In the border regions of Russia, a “yellow” level of danger was introduced in the spring. On the eve of the Belgorod and Kursk regions extended it until May 25.
The “yellow” level of danger is declared “if there is confirmed information about the real possibilities of committing this act”, “red”,” detected – when a terrorist attack has already been committed or there is an “immediate threat” of its commission.
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