Tag: Belgorod (Russia)

Rebellious Russians Stage Daring Attacks From Ukraine on Russian Soil

Gathered in a Ukrainian farmhouse, soldiers checked their kits: rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, spare batteries for radios, red and white flashlights, all that would be needed for a stealthy and daring night assault across the border into Russia. The soldiers are Russians who have turned against the government of their country’s president, Vladimir V. […]

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Ukraine Searches for Answers on Russian Plane Crash

Ukrainian officials searched for answers on Thursday to the circumstances of a deadly plane crash over the border in Russia, asking for patience from citizens while it investigated Moscow’s claims that Ukraine had shot down a Russian military aircraft carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called for his country’s intelligence agency […]

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Russian Plane Carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs Crashes, Killing All Onboard, Officials Say

A large Russian military transport plane crashed on Wednesday in the Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, state news agencies said, citing a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry. Everyone onboard was killed, the regional governor said. The Defense Ministry said that the plane had been carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were […]

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Putin Vows to Keep Up Bombardment After a Russian City Is Hit

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia vowed on Monday to continue missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, in retaliation for what he called a “terror” attack on the Russian city of Belgorod last week. “They want to scare us, to create a certain uncertainty inside the country,” Mr. Putin said during a televised meeting with the […]

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Russia Attacks Kharkiv With Missiles and Drones

Russia pummeled the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with missiles and drones in the hours leading up to New Year’s Eve in what Moscow said was retaliation for an alleged deadly Ukrainian air assault on Saturday on the Russian city of Belgorod. Residents of the Ukrainian city, Kharkiv, which is just 60 miles across the […]

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Ukrainian Missile Attack on a Russian City Kills at Least 14

The Russian authorities said on Saturday that a Ukrainian attack on the city of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, had killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100 others, in what appeared to be the deadliest single attack on Russian soil since the beginning of the war. Russia’s Defense Ministry said in […]

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