Following a horrific Ukrainian assault that killed more than 20 people, including numerous children, and injured 100, a fresh missile alert was temporarily established in the Russian city of Belgorod.
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov issued a warning early Sunday, urging all citizens to take cover from a fresh potential onslaught from Ukraine, which was only 40 kilometers away. About 30 minutes later, the governor deactivated the warning without explaining if it was a false alarm.
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According to the most recent figures, 24 people were murdered and 108 were injured in the incident, including four children. According to Gladkov, the hit also caused broad devastation, causing damage to dozens of residential buildings and more than 50 automobiles.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the strike on Saturday employed a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple-launch rocket system as well as Russian-made Olkha rockets loaded with cluster bombs. Because of the great risk it poses to civilians, the latter type of weapon, which disperses a huge number of submunitions over a vast region, is prohibited in over 100 nations.
Russian officials have called Saturday’s tragedy a “terrorist act” and claimed that Western countries, which have provided Kiev with massive amounts of military aid, were complicit in the attack.
While Moscow has claimed that a Czech-made weapon was used in the barrage and called an urgent UN Security Council meeting on the matter, Prague’s representative to the organization did not attend the session. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said that Prague “refuses to let Russia summon us anywhere” and does not want to “serve the aggressor’s propaganda.”
However, Moscow suggested that the Czech Republic skipped the meeting because it was afraid to publicly respond to the accusations.
