from Sputnik News:
Belgorod, a Russian city of 340,000 situated about 40 km from the Ukrainian border, was hit by a Ukrainian missile and long-range MLRS strike on Saturday, with 24 civilians killed and dozens injured. The terror strike came following Friday’s massed Russian attacks across Ukraine targeting energy facilities, ammo depots, airfields and military HQs.
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The Russian military made good on its promise to “punish” those responsible for Saturday’s attack on Belgorod, striking a series of military facilities and decision-making centers in the city of Kharkov.
“A high-precision missile strike on the former Kharkov Palace hotel complex eliminated representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Main Intelligence Directorate, who were directly involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist attack in Belgorod,” the MoD said in a statement Sunday.
According to the MoD’s information, up to two hundred mercenaries were situated at the complex, and were planning to conduct terrorist raids inside Russia.
Additional strikes targeted the building of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kharkov Region, as well as a temporary deployment point of the Right Sector* formation, killing Ukrainian Intelligence Service representatives, foreign mercenaries and militants from the Kraken unit, who were similarly planning sabotage attacks on Russian territory.
Separately, Russian missiles hit a branch of the Ukrainian National Space Facilities Control Center in the area of the village of Zalestsy in Khmelnytsky region used for reconnaissance.
Sunday’s strikes also targeted fuel depots in Kharkov and Ukrainian controlled areas of Zaporozhye, the temporary deployment points of units of Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Infantry and 79th Airborne Assault Brigades, and a concentration of up to 600 foreign mercenaries. The attacks also hit concentrations of military equipment and artillery in the settlements of Selidovo, Kurakhovo and the Korotchenko Mine in the occupied portion of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The MoD assessed Ukrainian forces to have suffered “significant losses” in the latter strikes, including the destruction of two HIMARS launches which the military said were going to be used to target Donetsk during the New Year’s holidays.
