Nighttime shelling from Ukraine caused "serious damage" in the Russian border city of Belgorod, the governor of the region said early this morning, Reuters reports.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, in a somber video posted on Telegram after midnight, said city officials were holding an emergency meeting to come up with a plan of action.
"Unfortunately, I cannot say good evening, my dear friends. The enemy shelled the civilian city of Belgorod. Everyone knows that we have no military targets. Serious damage was done. I was on the ground to take a look," Gladkov said in the video, recorded in almost complete darkness.
He did not provide details about the damage. He said that the authorities had not provided temporary accommodation.
Separately, the governor of neighboring Russia's Bryansk region said Ukraine had hit energy facilities using HIMARS missiles and drones, causing power outages in some settlements.
Russia and Ukraine said last week they had halted attacks on energy infrastructure, but disagreed over the timeframe for the moratorium. Attacks resumed earlier this week.
The reported attacks occurred in the context of peace talks brokered by the United States.
A post on the unofficial Russian Telegram channel Mash, which has sources in the security services, states that missiles hit the city, which is located about 40 km from the Ukrainian border, and that power has been cut off in some neighborhoods.
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the allegations. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
In his morning address, Gladkov said that work to restore electricity supply is still ongoing.
"To date, we have not been able to fully restore electricity supply in Belgorod," he said.
Ukrainian forces have been regularly attacking Belgorod and surrounding parts of the region since Russia's invasion of its smaller neighbor in February 2022.
Ukraine said Russian missile and drone attacks on the capital Kiev in January left about a million people without electricity.
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