Igor Konashenkov. Photo: Video frame of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said at a morning briefing on Sunday that the Ukrainian army carried out a “deliberate strike with Tochka-U missiles” at night. with cluster munitions and Tu-143 drones in the residential districts of Belgorod and Kursk.
The consequences of the shelling of Belgorod were filmed
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>As stated in the official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, this strike was deliberately planned by Kyiv and was conducted against the civilian population of Russian cities.
Konashenkov emphasized that all three Tochka-U missiles were launched from Belgorod ; with cluster warheads were destroyed in the air. However, fragments of one of the rockets fell on a residential building, which caused the death of people.
At the same time, he noted that the Ukrainian Tu-143 drones flying towards Kurs were filled with explosives. They were also shot down by air defenses as they approached the city.
Eyewitnesses photographed the devastation in Belgorod after the shelling
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