Ukraine accused of lethal cross-border assault on Russian village | Russia-Ukraine conflict Information

If confirmed, the assaults would mark the primary time a Russian has been killed contained in the nation by Ukraine shelling since Moscow’s invasion in February.

One individual was killed and 7 had been wounded in a Russian village bordering Ukraine in what could be the first loss of life of a Russian civilian contained in the nation since Moscow launched the conflict.

Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov of Russia’s Belgorod province mentioned on Thursday the assault by Ukraine forces occurred within the village of Solokhi.

The village got here underneath shelling from the Ukrainian aspect late Wednesday, and residents had been later evacuated “to a protected place”, Gladkov mentioned. With a inhabitants of 638, Solokhi lies 20km (12 miles) north of the Ukrainian area of Kharkiv.

“Seven wounded, one other sufferer was introduced late at evening. Everybody is supplied with certified medical care, medicines can be found in full. One individual died. We’ll present materials help to all of the victims and the household of the deceased,” Gladkov mentioned on his Telegram channel.

Al Jazeera couldn’t independently confirm Gladkov’s account. If confirmed, it might mark the primary loss of life in Russia underneath Ukraine hearth because the begin of the conflict.

‘Most extreme to this point’

Russian authorities in areas bordering Ukraine have accused Kyiv of a sequence of assaults, together with a helicopter raid on a gas depot. Ukraine, which has been preventing off the Russian invasion since February 24, has not claimed duty for the assaults.

Gladkov described the shelling as “probably the most extreme to this point”, including an condominium constructing had been destroyed, in accordance with Russia’s state-run information company TASS.

A sequence of explosions was heard on April 27 in three Russian provinces bordering Ukraine, authorities mentioned, and an ammunition depot in Belgorod province caught hearth about the identical time.

Ukraine Presidential Adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the assaults as payback and “karma” for Moscow’s invasion.

“In case you [Russians] resolve to massively assault one other nation, massively kill everybody there, massively crush peaceable folks with tanks, and use warehouses in your areas to allow the killings, then ultimately the money owed must be repaid,” Podolyak mentioned on the time.

Belgorod province borders Ukraine’s Luhansk, Sumy and Kharkiv areas, all of which have seen heavy preventing since Russia invaded Ukraine.

On April 1, a Russian official alleged two Ukrainian navy helicopters flew throughout the border and bombed a gas depot within the japanese metropolis of Belgorod. It was the primary identified air raid by Ukraine’s forces on Russian soil since Moscow invaded its neighbour.

Video photographs of the purported assault posted on-line confirmed what regarded like a number of missiles being fired from low altitude, adopted by an explosion that sparked an enormous hearth.

On the time, Ukraine’s high safety official Oleksiy Danilov denied Kyiv had carried out that assault.

The incidents have uncovered Russian vulnerabilities in areas near Ukraine which might be very important to its navy logistics chains.

Russia despatched tens of hundreds of troops into Ukraine on February 24 in a “particular navy operation” to degrade its navy capabilities and root out what it calls harmful nationalists. Hundreds of Ukrainians have been killed and tens of millions displaced.

Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in an effort to power it to withdraw its troops.

Mansur Mirovalev contributed to this report from Kyiv.