Take any report coming from the Kremlin with a grain mountain of salt, but Russian officials report a major Ukrainian bombardment of the border town of Belgorod, located about 20 miles inside Russia, resulted in the death of 14 including two children on Saturday, CNN reports. The attack came after a Russian aerial attack that led to 39 Ukrainian deaths on Thursday.
Russian defense ministry officials called the shelling “indiscriminate,” said forty civilian buildings were damaged or destroyed in the city of around 380,000 people, and pledged that “the crime will not go unpunished.” Belgorod is a staging area for Russian troops and is the site of large fuel deposits for the Russian military.