Ukraine updates: Belgorod says new assault amid Russia vote

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday accused Ukraine of participating in terror assaults to drum up Western assist for extra arms.

In an announcement revealed on X, previously Twitter, the ministry claimed, “It is obvious that the corrupt regime in Kyiv has intensified its terrorist activities in connection with the ongoing presidential elections in Russia in order to demonstrate its activity to its Western handlers and to beg for even more financial assistance and lethal weapons.”  

Ukraine has reportedly intensified assaults over the previous a number of days on Russia, concentrating on the border metropolis of Belgorod and several other Russian oil refineries.

Militant teams in addition to anti-Putin Russians preventing alongside them have additionally elevated floor operations across the Russian border. 

President Vladimir Putin has lashed out at Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of making an attempt to “disrupt” a rigged vote that will see him elected to a different 6-year time period. 
 

It’s been two years because the bombing of the Mariupol theater, the place as many as 600 folks died  after Russia bombed it.

“The world must remember everything Russia has done to Ukraine and Ukrainians, and each Russian murderer must be held accountable for their actions,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, previously Twitter.

“We will ensure their accountability,” he added. 

The metropolis, which now underneath Russian management, has suffered a few of the worst bodily destruction of some other place in Ukraine within the early months of the Russian invasion. 

Also, on Saturday, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, headquartered in Berlin, stated its evaluation confirmed the assault was almost definitely a conflict crime.

“Everything points to the fact that Russian air forces deliberately bombed the theater as a civilian object and the civilians who sought refuge there.”

A drone assault, which authorities stated was carried out by Ukraine, precipitated a fireplace at a Russian oil refinery, which burned for a number of hours on Saturday earlier than being introduced underneath management.

According to Russian information company Interfax, Russia’s emergency ministry stated the “open burning” on the Syzran refinery within the Samara area southeast of Moscow had been stopped, however the blaze was not absolutely extinguished.

A drone assault on one other close by refinery, Novokuibyshevsky was thwarted, the native governor stated. 

A Ukrainian supply advised the Reuters information company that Kyiv’s SBU intelligence company had struck the 2 Rosneft refineries and one other named Kuibyshevsky. 

Russian media haven’t reported a strike on the Kuibyshevsky refinery, which is positioned within the metropolis of Samara.

A Ukrainian assault on the Russian metropolis of Belgorod killed two folks within the newest in a sequence of cross-border assaults,  Russian authorities stated on Saturday.

“A man was driving a lorry when a shell hit him, after which the vehicle crashed into a passenger bus. The people on it were not injured,” the governor of the Belgorod area, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated on the Telegram messaging app.

“Another woman was killed in a parking lot where she and her son came to feed the dogs. Medics are fighting for her son’s life,” he added.

The Russian Defense Ministry earlier stated it had thwarted makes an attempt by “Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups” to enter the nation from Ukraine’s Sumy area.

It adopted an armed incursion claimed by Ukraine-based Russian opponents of the Kremlin on Tuesday within the Belgorod and Kursk areas.

lo/wd (Reuters, AP, AFP, dpa)