Fires in Russia
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Power Station Strike Knocks Out Electricity in Russian Border Region
Fires erupted at a power station in the Russian border region of Belgorod overnight, a blaze that left part of the regional capital without power and that Russian military correspondents attributed to a Ukrainian drone attack.
“The cause of this is the actions of our enemies,” wrote Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov on Russian social-media platform VK. “The most important thing is that no one was injured,” he said.
Moscow has blamed Ukraine for a string of cross-border strikes which have hit Russian installations, including a fuel depot and ammunition warehouse last year, threatening to expand the conflict beyond Ukraine. Kyiv has also carried out attacks on Russian military targets on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
Ukrainian officials on Monday didn’t comment on the fires in Belgorod.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov has previously threatened that Moscow would retaliate against cross-border strikes by launching attacks on Ukraine’s decision-making centers, including Kyiv.
