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☆ Russia's air defence downs four missiles in Belgorod region - governor
  + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
March 13 (Reuters) - At least one person was wounded in the southern Russian region of Belgorod on Monday after Russian forces shot down four missiles over the region and its administrative centre Belgorod, the governor of the region bordering Ukraine said. "At this time one person is known to have been injured," Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on the Telegram messaging app. He did not say who he thought had fired the missiles but in the past he has accused Ukrainian forces on the other side of the nearby border of similar attacks. Belgorod borders Ukraine's Kharkiv region and has repeatedly come under fire since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago. Ukraine almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks inside Russia and on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.
☆ Russia used rarely seen missiles and wildly unpredictable ones Ukraine's forces can't stop in deadly strikes across the country
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ukraine's air defenses are unable to shoot down these weapons, a military official said. Ukraine's military said Russia fired 81 missiles and eight Iranian-made suicide drones at cities across the country, leaving multiple civilians dead and injured. Among the missiles that were fired were 28 Kh-101 and Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles, 20 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles, 13 S-300 surface-to-air missiles, eight Kh-31P and 6 –Kh-59 guided missiles, six Kh-47 Kinzhal missiles, and six Kh-22 missiles, according to Ukrainian state media. Three rockets launched against Ukraine from Russia's Belgorod region are seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 9, 2023. AP Photo/Mykola TysYurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine's military, said Thursday's attack was "really large-scale and for the first time using such different types of missiles.
☆ Russia's air defence downs three missiles in Belgorod region - governor
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
March 6 (Reuters) - At least one person was wounded in the southern Russian region of Belgorod on Monday after Russian forces shot down three missiles, the governor of the region bordering Ukraine said. "It's known about one wounded, a man with shrapnel wounds to his hand," Gladkov said. Belgorod borders Ukraine's Kharkiv region and has repeatedly come under fire since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago. Ukraine almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks inside Russia and on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Robert BirselOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Russian fighter jet crashes in Belgorod region, near Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Feb 23 (Reuters) - A Russian SU-25 fighter plane crashed on Thursday in Russia's Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine and the pilot was killed, the Russian defence ministry said. The cause of the crash was a "technical malfunction", according to preliminary information, the TASS news agency cited the ministry as saying. The plane crashed in an uninhabited area and there were no reports of other damage, it said. Earlier, in a post on the Telegram messenger app, Belgorod's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that emergency services and investigators were on the scene of the crash near the town of Valyuki, and that the cause was being investigated. Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine's Kharkiv region, has repeatedly come under fire since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago.
☆ Russian court hands down first sabotage verdict since start or Ukraine war
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Feb 21 (Reuters) - A Russian court sentenced two defendants to three-and-a-half years in a strict regime colony for plotting to sabotage the railway in a region bordering Ukraine, the first convictions for sabotage since Russia's invasion, media reported on Tuesday. Their convictions were the first based on the "Sabotage" Article 231 of the Russian Criminal Code since the start of what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine, the news agency said. Ukraine and its allies say Russia's military intervention in its neighbour, launched on Feb. 24 last year, is an imperialistic land-grab. There have been several sabotage incidents against Russian railways and other facilities, especially in regions bordering Ukraine, such as Belgorod and Bryansk, according to the British Ministry of Defence. The ministry said in an October report that with the Russian military primarily relaying on rail transport, which often passes through isolated areas, meaning "the system is extremely challenging to secure against physical threats".
☆ A Russian sergeant accidentally detonated a hand grenade in his dorm on Ukraine's border, killing 3 and injuring 16
  + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Russian soldier accidentally set off a hand grenade in Belgorod on Sunday evening. Three soldiers died, 16 were injured, and another eight are missing, Russian state media reported. The grenade was detonated by a senior sergeant serving as a platoon commander, 112 reported. The grenade exploded in Tonenkoye village's community center, which was used to store ammunition and house Russian soldiers, per Russian state news outlet TASS. The channel also reported that the blast was caused by an RGD-5 grenade, an anti-personnel hand grenade designed in the early 1950s.
☆ Three killed, 13 hurt in ammunition blast in Russia's Belgorod region
  + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Jan 15 (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 13 injured in an ammunition explosion in Russia's Belgorod region, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Sunday, citing local emergency services. Authorities said earlier on Sunday that 10 Russian servicemen were injured in the blast in a cultural centre in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine and is the location of several Russian military bases and training grounds. The 112 and Baza Telegram channels, which are associated with Russia's law enforcement agencies, said the dead and injured were Russian conscripts who were called up to fight in Ukraine under Russia's mobilisation drive, announced last September. They reported that the blast occurred after a soldier mishandled a grenade in a local cultural centre that had been converted to store ammunition. Reporting by Reuters Editing by Mark HeinrichOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Russia’s Draft Patched Holes but Also Exposed Flaws in War Machine
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Thomas Grove | Photographs Manu Brabo For The Wall Street Journal. | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Yevgeny Chavelyuk recalls receiving a phone call in October telling him to report for duty in Cherepovets, north of Moscow, where he was working at steelmaker Severstal. Within days he was transferred to a military base in Nizhny Novgorod, east of the capital, where he said training mainly consisted of standing for hours on the parade grounds and learning to make a bed. Soon after, he said, his unit was on its way to what they were told would be further training in the Belgorod region near Ukraine, but he said he knew he had already crossed the border when he got out of his transport vehicle for a cigarette break.
☆ Rockets Kill One in Russian Region Near Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Alan Cullison | Yaroslav Trofimov | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut have been locked in a long, bloody battle with Russian forces determined to take the eastern city. KYIV, Ukraine—A rocket strike killed at least one person in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine, local officials said, as Russia’s defense minister made a rare visit to the Ukrainian war zone. A rocket salvo targeting Belgorod on Sunday was intercepted by Russian air defenses, but falling debris and shrapnel killed one resident, injured eight others and caused damage to 14 buildings, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov , said on social media. He didn’t explicitly blame Ukraine, and Kyiv didn’t acknowledge responsibility for the attack.
☆ Russia's war on Ukraine latest news: Putin cautions about challenges in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
* Speaking on Security Services Day, widely celebrated in Russia, Putin ordered the strengthening of Russia's borders as Moscow tries to regain momentum in its war against Ukraine. * Putin and his Belarusian counterpart President Alexander extolled the benefits of cooperation, but they hardly mentioned the Ukraine war at their joint news conference. [1/11] A local resident Mykola Kobzarenko inspects the remains of his garage, destroyed during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Stari Bezradychi, in Kyiv region, Ukraine December 19, 2022. * Ukraine's atomic energy agency accused Russia of sending a "kamikaze" drone over part of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant in the Mykolaiv region overnight. * Washington and its allies need do more to help Ukraine keep the power on, a senior U.S. diplomat said.
☆ Bodycam footage shows Russian pilot ejecting before a crash, probably after his jet clipped a power line in training
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The footage matches descriptions of a Russian Su-25 which crashed in June while training. The footage matches descriptions of a crash months earlier, in which a Russian Su-25 crashes in a training flight after clipping a power line. The incident happened in the Belgorod region in Russia in June during a training flight, state-media organization RIA Novosti reported at the time. The Russian news outlet Baza reported that the pilot ejecting after the Su-25 clipped a power transmission tower in a field. RIA Novosti reported the crash was due to a technical malfunction, without giving further detail.
☆ Intense fighting flares in Ukraine's Donetsk region
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
REUTERS/Alexander ErmochenkoKYIV, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces was taking place around two towns in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Bakhmut and Soledar, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. Fighting has been particularly intense this weekend in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which make up the larger industrial Donbas, and the strategically important Kherson province in the south. Russian forces shelled Ukrainian positions on several fronts on Sunday, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said, with the targets including towns in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kherson regions. Shelling by Ukrainian forces damaged the administration building in the city Donetsk, capital of the Donetsk region, the head of its Russian-backed administration said on Sunday. There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine to the attack on Donetsk city, which was annexed by Russian-backed separatists in 2014 along with swathes of the Donbas.
☆ Shooting at Russian Military Training Ground Leaves 11 Dead, 15 Injured
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
MOSCOW—Two recruits opened fire at a Russian military training ground near the border with Ukraine on Saturday, leaving 11 people dead and 15 injured, the state news agency TASS reported. The shootings happened during a live-fire training exercise in the Belgorod region. The assailants opened fire with small arms before they in turn were fatally shot, the report said, citing the Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
☆ No civilians killed in attack at Russian military base - local governor
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Oct 16 (Reuters) - No civilians were killed in the attack at a military base in Russia's Belgorod region, but many soldiers were killed or wounded, the governor of Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said early on Sunday. "A terrible event happened on our territory, on the territory of one of the military units," Gladkov said in a video post on the Telegram messaging app. "Many soldiers were killed and wounded ... There are no residents of the Belgorod region among the wounded and killed." The state RIA news agency cited the defence ministry as saying that 11 people were killed and 15 others were wounded.
☆ 2 Russian soldiers turned their guns on fellow recruits, killing 11 and injuring 15 at a training base, say reports
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russian authorities said that 11 people were killed and 15 injured in a shooting at a military training site. The incident took place during a firearms training class for volunteer soldiers. News reports state that 11 people were killed and 15 injured during a firearms training class involving volunteer soldiers. Governor of Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said, "A terrible event happened on our territory, on the territory of one of the military units. The training camp incident came as the Russian president indicated the mobilization of 300,000 soldiers was a success on Friday.
☆ Gunmen kill 11 at Russian army base in new blow to Moscow's Ukraine campaign
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Russian citizens drafted during the partial mobilization begin their military trainings after a military call-up for the Russia-Ukraine war in Rostov, Russia on October 04, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesGunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training ground, the defense ministry said, in the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin's forces since the invasion of Ukraine. The attack took place a week after a blast damaged a bridge in Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014. The Russian ministry had said the attackers were from a nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which groups nine ex-Soviet republics, including Tajikistan. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize Bakhmut, which sits on a main road leading to the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
☆ Two volunteer soldiers fire on troops at Russian military firing range, killing 11 and wounding 15 others
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Gunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training ground, the defence ministry said, in the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s forces since the invasion of Ukraine. “A terrible event happened on our territory, on the territory of one of the military units,” the governor of Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said early on Sunday. There are no residents of the Belgorod region among the wounded and killed,’ Gladkov said in a video post on the Telegram messaging app. The Russian ministry had said the attackers were from a nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which groups nine ex-Soviet republics, including Tajikistan. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize Bakhmut, which sits on a main road leading to the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
☆ Two volunteer soldiers fire on troops at Russian military firing range , killing 11 and wounding 15 others
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +1 min
MOSCOW — Two volunteer soldiers on Saturday fired at other troops at a Russian military firing range near Ukraine, killing 11 and wounding 15 others, before getting killed, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry said in a statement that the shooting took place in the Belgorod region in southwestern Russia that borders Ukraine. It said that the two volunteers from an unnamed ex-Soviet nation fired on other soldiers during target practice and were killed by return fire. Putin said on Friday that over 220,000 reservists already had been called up as part of an effort to recruit 300,000. Authorities have acknowledged that the mobilization was often poorly organized and promised to improve the situation.
☆ At least 11 killed, 15 wounded in attack at Russia military training ground, RIA reports
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Oct 15 (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a Russian military training ground on Saturday when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers who wished to fight in Ukraine, RIA news agency said. The deadly incident is just the latest in a series of high-profile setbacks for Moscow's forces since the Feb. 24 invasion. RIA, citing the defence ministry, said the two assailants had been shot dead after the attack in the southwestern Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. Another 15 people with wounds of varying severity were taken to a medical facility," it said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Gunmen kill 11 at Russian military base in latest blow to war in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( David Ljunggren | Thomson Reuters | Covers Canadian Political | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Oct 16 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training ground on Saturday, the defence ministry said, in the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin's forces since the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian ministry had said the attackers were from a nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which groups nine ex-Soviet republics, including Tajikistan. Ukrainian forces and civilians are relying on Starlink internet service provided by Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company. RUSSIAN MISSILE, DRONE ATTACKSPutin ordered the mobilization three weeks ago, part of a response to Russian battlefield defeats in Ukraine. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize Bakhmut, which sits on a main road leading to the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
☆ A shooting at a Russian military firing range killed 11 troops and wounded 15
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that 11 troops were killed at a military firing range. The ministry called Saturday's incident a terrorist attack, and said the two perpetrators were killed by return fire. Russia said the two men were from an unnamed former Soviet republic, and fired upon soldiers during target practice. The ministry called the incident a terrorist attack. Russian media reports said some of those who were mobilized were sent to combat without receiving proper training and were quickly killed.
☆ Trains suspended in parts of Russia's Belgorod region after defences shoot down missile -governor
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Oct 14 (Reuters) - Train operations were suspended early on Friday near Novyi Oskol, a town in Russia's Belgorod region that borders Ukraine, after remains of a missile fell near the railway, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app that anti-craft defences shot down missiles near Novyi Oskol, a town of about 18,000 people which lies about 90 kilometres (56 miles) north of the border with Ukraine. Trains are temporarily suspended," Gladkov said, adding that there were no casualties. On Thursday, Gladkov accused Ukraine of shelling an apartment block in the city of Belgorod, the administrative centre of the Belgorod region. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Governor of Russia's Belgorod region says thousands left without power after Ukrainian shelling
  + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The governor of Russia's Belgorod region said on Tuesday that more than 2,000 people had been left without power after Ukraine shelled an electricity substation in the town of Shebekino, on the border with Ukraine's Kharkiv region. In a post on Telegram, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that emergency services were working to restore the power supply. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by ReutersOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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