Several people have been killed in a Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of the Russian army command in the city of Izyum, according to Kiev. Among them are senior officers, Anton Herashchenko, the adviser to the interior minister, said via Telegram. Izyum has a population of 50,000 and is located in eastern Ukraine between Kharkiv and Donetsk.
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Earlier, the Ukrainian military released these drone footage of an attack near Izyum:
Army sources in Kiev claim that the chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, is in Izyum. As commander-in-chief, he coordinates the offensive in the Donbas. Moscow did not respond to the report about the attack in Izyum and the possible whereabouts of Gerasimov.
In western Russia, not far from the border with Ukraine, another military facility has caught fire. This was announced by the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkow, via Telegram. Someone who lived close to the facility was injured.
Grenades
Recently there have been regular shelling in that area, according to Moscow they come from Ukraine. At the beginning of April, an oil storage facility in Belgorod was already bombed. Grenades also flew at targets in Kursk and Bryansk on Saturday. Kiev dismisses the news as “Russian provocation” to have an excuse to launch missiles.
In the Kursk region, a railway bridge also partially collapsed. The governor stated in a video message that sabotage is assumed. According to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, an investigation has been launched to trace the perpetrators and bring them to justice. They struck near Suja, near the Ukrainian border, on the railway to Sosnovi Bor.
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