CNN —Russia and Ukraine exchanged air attacks on Thursday, with Moscow targeting cities across Ukraine and Kyiv striking the Russian border city of Belgorod, one day after Kyiv said it sank another Russian warship off the coast of Crimea.
Hours later, Russian authorities said five people were killed and 18 injured, in a missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod.
Ukraine’s strikes on Belgorod on Thursday are the latest in a series of attacks on the city, which has been dragged into Moscow’s conflict.
Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions near the border have continued almost daily for over a year, sometimes resulting in civilian casualties.
At the end of last year Russia claimed Ukraine killed 24 people in shelling on Belgorod.
Persons:
Vyacheselv Gladkov, Caesar Kunikov, Belgorod Region Vyacheslav, Anatolii Kurtiev, ”, Maksym Kozytskyi, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Zaluzhnyi
Organizations:
CNN, Reuters, Zaporizhzhia, Russian
Locations:
Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Kyiv, Russian, Belgorod, Crimea, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Belgorod Region