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| Russia accuses Ukraine of helicopter strike on border town |
| 2022-04-15 |
| [An Nahar] Russian officials on Thursday accused Ukraine of sending helicopters to bomb a town in the southern Bryansk region about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border, after reporting seven injured in shelling. "Using two military helicopters carrying heavy weaponry, Ukrainian armed forces illegally entered Russian air space," Russia's Investigative Committee -- which probes major crimes -- said in a statement. "Flying low, acting deliberately, they carried out at least six air strikes on residential buildings in the settlement of Klimovo," Sherlocks said. As a result, they said, "at least six residential buildings were damaged... and seven people received injuries of varying severity including one small child born in 2020." This appeared to be the first time that Moscow has officially accused Ukrainian armed forces of flying helicopters into Russia to carry out an attack. Previously the governor of Belgorod region in southern Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said two Ukrainian military helicopters had carried out a strike on a fuel depot on April 1, while this was not directly confirmed by Ukraine or Moscow. Thursday's shelling was announced earlier by governor Alexander Bogomaz, who said on Telegram that "two residential buildings were damaged and some of the residents were maimed". A Russian health ministry official, Alexei Kuznetsov, told the RIA Novosti news agency that the seven injured were in hospital, adding that two were at death's door and required surgery. The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, Gladkov, later said on Telegram that the village of Spodaryushino close to the border "came under shelling from the Ukrainian side" and residents from this and a nearby village had been evacuated as a precaution. Also on Thursday, Russia's security agency the FSB told TASS news agency that Ukraine fired at border checkpoint where over 30 Ukrainian refugees were crossing into Russia. It added that there were no injuries.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Sort of hard to have a Gulf of Tonkin incident when you are withdrawing with a bloody nose and minus one flag ship. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-04-15 17:08 |
| #8 If Russia and Ukraine really are one people, as Putin claims, does it matter if they're ruled from Moscow or from Kiev? |
| Posted by: James 2022-04-15 16:33 |
| #7 Yah, sucks don't it? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-04-15 15:03 |
| #6 Our recent trolls might claim that "the stupid clumsy Ukrainians thought they were bombing their own people." |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-04-15 14:45 |
| #5 My god an attack by Ukraine in Russian! Take it to the UN or the European Court of Human Rights.. |
| Posted by: Alpha2c 2022-04-15 14:26 |
| #4 Gotta admire the chutzpah of invading a nation and calling counter-strikes "illegal". |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-04-15 14:19 |
| #3 #2: Might it be time to incorpate Kaliningrad into Poland? |
| Posted by: Percy Gurly-Brown1787 2022-04-15 10:25 |
| #2 So, what if they did? Seems to me they have more than enough provocation to do such a thing. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-04-15 09:45 |
| #1 Ukraine denies 'attacking inside Russia AGAIN' after Moscow claims two helicopters bombed border towns following threat to strike Kyiv as payback |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-15 06:55 |