00:43The aftermath of the strikes on neighbourhoods in Belgorod, a Russian region bordering Ukraine, were seen on Monday.
Footage shows vehicles burning, smoke rising and the damaged exterior of a number of buildings.
Belgorod region Governor Viacheslav Gladkov reported that eight people were wounded. He added that a house and more than 15 vehicles were set alight, with windows shattered in 21 apartment blocks and four houses. In addition, a gas pipeline was damaged.
The Ukrainian side had not commented on the shelling at the time of publication. Kiev has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. Intensive shelling of the Belgorod region began at the end of May 2023, while Ukraine launched an incursion into the neighbouring Kursk region last month.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Buildings, vehicles torched following reported shelling in Russia's Belgorod border region
The aftermath of the strikes on neighbourhoods in Belgorod, a Russian region bordering Ukraine, were seen on Monday.
Footage shows vehicles burning, smoke rising and the damaged exterior of a number of buildings.
Belgorod region Governor Viacheslav Gladkov reported that eight people were wounded. He added that a house and more than 15 vehicles were set alight, with windows shattered in 21 apartment blocks and four houses. In addition, a gas pipeline was damaged.
The Ukrainian side had not commented on the shelling at the time of publication. Kiev has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. Intensive shelling of the Belgorod region began at the end of May 2023, while Ukraine launched an incursion into the neighbouring Kursk region last month.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
The aftermath of the strikes on neighbourhoods in Belgorod, a Russian region bordering Ukraine, were seen on Monday.
Footage shows vehicles burning, smoke rising and the damaged exterior of a number of buildings.
Belgorod region Governor Viacheslav Gladkov reported that eight people were wounded. He added that a house and more than 15 vehicles were set alight, with windows shattered in 21 apartment blocks and four houses. In addition, a gas pipeline was damaged.
The Ukrainian side had not commented on the shelling at the time of publication. Kiev has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. Intensive shelling of the Belgorod region began at the end of May 2023, while Ukraine launched an incursion into the neighbouring Kursk region last month.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.