An apartment building partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, causing at least 13 deaths and injuring 20 other people, officials said. They blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building's destruction.
Officials are blaming Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry later wrote on social media that the building had been damaged by fragments of a downed Tochka-U TRC missile. It also said that air defenses had shot down several more rockets over the Belgorod region, as well as two drones that were destroyed in a separate incident later Sunday.
Could have been wreckage from a show down rocket. Could have been unintentional friendly fire.
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u/speakhyroglyphically May 13 '24
May 13, 2024 - A Ukrainian missile hit an apartment block inside Russia yesterday, the Kremlin said as cross-border attacks intensified.
Footage showed a large section of the 10-storey block in Bolgorod, near the Ukrainian border, was hit by a projectile and later collapsed.
At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen injured, Moscow claimed.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/an-apartment-block-collapses-in-a-russian-border-19453461.php