Russia attacked the city of Jarkovin northwest Ukraine, in retaliation for the Ukrainian bombing this Saturday against the Russian city of Belgradewhich left at least 24 muertos and more than a hundred injured, reported the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“In response to this terrorist act, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked decision-making centers and military facilities in the city of Kharkiv,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.
The governor of the Ukrainian region, Oleg Sinegoubov, said that the rockets hit a hotel, residential buildings, clinics and hospitals, injuring 28 people. Among them were two teenagers and a British man, a security adviser to a team of German journalists, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The Russian military command indicated that the “Kharkov Palace” hotel complex was hit, where they were “liquidated representatives of military intelligence and the armed forces of Ukraine who were directly involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist attack on Belgorod.”
“There they were until 200 foreign mercenaries which they planned to use to launch terrorist incursions into Russian territory bordering Ukraine,” the statement added.