By: NewsPeddlers
A series of explosions were heard
in the early hours of Wednesday in three Russian provinces bordering Ukraine,
authorities said, and an ammunition depot in the Belgorod province caught fire around
the same time.
Belgorod
regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said in Aljazeera report
that no civilians had been injured in the fire, which broke out at a facility
near Staraya Nelidovka village and was subsequently extinguished.
Earlier this month, Russia accused Ukraine of
attacking a fuel depot in Belgorod with helicopters and opening fire on several
villages in the province.
The Belgorod province borders Ukraine’s Luhansk,
Sumy and Kharkiv regions, all of which have seen heavy fighting since Russia
invaded Ukraine two months ago.
Separately, Roman Starovoyt, the governor of
Russia’s Kursk province, which also borders Ukraine, said explosions had been
heard in Kursk city early on Wednesday, which were most likely the sounds of
air defence systems firing.
He later said that a Ukrainian unmanned aerial
vehicle was intercepted in the sky over Kursk region, adding that there were no
casualties or damage.
In Voronezh, the administrative centre of another
province adjacent to Ukraine, Russia’s TASS news agency cited an emergency
ministry official as saying that two blasts had been heard and the authorities
were investigating. Aljazeera report said
Russia said it was sending investigators to Kursk
and Voronezh regions to document what it calls “illegal actions by the
Ukrainian army”.
A top Ukrainian official on Wednesday described
the attacks as payback and “karma” for Moscow’s invasion.
“If you (Russians) decide to massively attack
another country, massively kill everyone there, massively crush peaceful people
with tanks, and use warehouses in your regions to enable the killings, then
sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid,” Ukraine’s presidential
adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said.
Podolyak said it was not possible to “sit out”
the Russian invasion. “And therefore, the disarmament of the Belgorod and
Voronezh killers’ warehouses is an absolutely natural process. Karma is a cruel
thing,” he said.
Source: Aljazeera