Ukraine Strikes Russian City of Belgorod; Russia Retaliates Against Kharkiv

The deadliest single assault against a Russian city since the start of the war nearly two years ago marks a significant escalation in the conflict.

• Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, killing at least 20 people and injuring over 110 others, marking the deadliest single assault against a Russian city since the start of the war nearly two years ago.
• Russia retaliated with several strikes against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, about 40 miles from Belgorod, causing at least 21 injuries and damage to residential buildings, shops and a medical facility.
• Russia accused Ukraine of conducting a 'terrorist attack' on civilians in Belgorod and using widely prohibited cluster munitions.
• Russia blamed the UK and the US for inciting the Ukrainian airstrikes on Belgorod, calling it a 'terror attack'.
• The back-to-back assaults underscore the willingness of both Moscow and Kyiv to escalate a war that will most likely mark its two-year anniversary in February, despite Ukraine’s problems with securing Western funding, an increased sense of war fatigue in Russia and enormous casualties on both sides.

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