INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Updated with Defense Ministry spokesperson comments and new death toll.Russia said four people were killed and several injured in a Sunday
strike on a city near the border with Ukraine, the most deadly attack inside Russia since the start of the invasion of its western
neighbor.The explosions, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, damaged 11 apartment blocks and 39 houses in Belgorod,
A private house is on fire on 23 Mayakovskaya Street
a huge fireball rising into the night sky behind what appeared to be apartment blocks.Russian towns and cities next to the Ukrainian border
have experienced a string of such incidents since the beginning of the invasion in February, but the casualty count Sunday was the highest
yet recorded."Russian ant-aircraft defences shot down three Tochka-U cluster missiles launched by Ukrainian nationalists against Belgorod,"
Russia's defense ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said Sunday
"After the destruction of the Ukrainian missiles, the debris of one of them fell on a house".Another two bodies were pulled from the rubble
Sunday morning, news outlet Baza reported
Kremenchuk and a strike on apartment blocks in Odesa Region
army launched a counteroffensive near the city of Kharkiv.Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for any attacks on Russian territory, but has
also not formally denied being behind them
said on Telegram.AFP contributed reporting.
