Russia Raps Ukraine For Missile Strikes On Its Oil

Russian authorities have accused Ukrainian forces of launching airstrikes on the Russian region of Bryansk which borders Ukraine, the latest in a series of allegations of cross-border attacks by Kyiv on Russian territory, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Photo Insert: Earlier this month, Ukraine’s top security officials denied that Kyiv was behind an airstrike on an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod, but it was later revealed that the missiles came from within Russia.

Russia’s Investigative Committee alleged that two Ukrainian military helicopters entered Russia’s air space on Thursday and, “moving at low altitude, acting deliberately, they carried out at least six airstrikes on residential buildings in the village of Klimovo,” about 11 kilometers away from the Russian border.

It said at least six houses in the village were damaged and seven people, including a toddler, sustained injuries.

The Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the attack. Earlier on Thursday, Russia’s state security service, or the FSB, also accused Ukrainian forces of firing mortars at a border post in the Bryansk region on Wednesday.

Ukraine had admitted shelling a Russian airbase near the border and destroying warplanes and helicopter gunships. In another attack, Ukraine also destroyed dozens of warplanes and missile batteries at the Kherson airbase occupied by Russian troops.

The reports could not be independently verified. Earlier this month, Ukraine’s top security officials denied that Kyiv was behind an airstrike on an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod, 35 miles from the border.

It turned out the Russian claim was false since the missiles came from within Russia, which indicated that Moscow made the claim to justify its brutal, but losing, invasion of Ukraine.

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